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Purpose of Dev and Test Sets

Once a dev set and test set are defined, a team can try many ideas, such as different learning algorithm parameters, to see what works best. The dev and test sets allow the team to quickly see how well the algorithm is doing, and their purpose is to direct the team toward the most important changes to make to the machine learning system. Measuring each idea's performance on the dev set lets the team quickly decide whether they are heading in the right direction, and helps them identify which ideas to keep refining and which ones to discard.

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Updated 2026-05-25

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