Why validation has to have 10 times repition of data?

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A PyTorch Implementation of "Recurrent Models of Visual Attention"

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Why validation has to have 10 times repition of data? #5

Closed deepakanandece closed 6 years ago

deepakanandece commented 6 years ago

Hello, Great work. Can you tell me why there is 10 time repetition while validating?

kevinzakka commented 6 years ago

It's Monte Carlo sampling. I've done it for testing and validation. To be completely honest, I have no clue if it's good practice to do so for the validation set. I should probably ask around.