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Tiny Training Samples Make Learning Curves Unstable

When only a few training examples are used, each learning-curve point can vary a lot because the random subset may be unusually easy or unusually hard. A small sample might also overinclude noisy labels, borderline cases, or other awkward examples. This effect is more likely when the classes are highly imbalanced or when the task has many classes, since a tiny draw is then less likely to reflect the full data set.

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Updated 2026-08-12

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