How does averaging learning curves over multiple random subsets reduce noise, and what are the specific steps to execute this technique?
Question: Describe the process of using multiple random subsets to reduce noise in learning curves. Detail how the training subsets are selected, how models are trained, and what metrics are ultimately calculated and plotted to observe the true learning trend.
Sample answer: To reduce noise in learning curves at small training set sizes, a practitioner can select multiple (typically 3 to 10) random training subsets of the target small size from the main dataset using sampling with replacement. A separate model is trained on each of these subsets. The training error and dev set error are calculated for each model individually. Finally, the average training error and average dev set error across all these models are computed and plotted to show the smoothed, true trend of the learning curve.
Key points:
- Sample multiple random training subsets of the same small size using sampling with replacement.
- Train a separate model on each of the selected subsets.
- Compute both the training error and the dev set error for each individual model.
- Calculate the average training error and average dev set error across all models to plot the final learning curves.
Rubric: The response must explain how the subsets are sampled (sampling with replacement), the process of training separate models on each subset, computing training and dev set error for each model, and averaging the errors to plot the trend.
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