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Detecting Small Performance Improvements with a Dev Set and Metric

Without a specific dev set and metric, a team may have to incorporate a new classifier into an app and manually try the app to judge whether the classifier is an improvement. Having a dev set and metric allows the team to quickly detect which ideas are giving small or large improvements, and therefore quickly decide which ideas to keep refining and which ones to discard.

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Updated 2026-05-27

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