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Best Practice for Group Based splitting (Train / Val / Test)
As an intro, Group Based Splitting is data splitting into Train / Test (Val), when by some attribute like patient_id, item_id or similar, to ensure that same person ...
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Why can monotonic feature transformation influence the performance of hypeparam-tuned tree-based models (e.g., random forest)?
I recently observed something unexpected: Although monotonic feature transformation does not affect the performance of decision tree-based models with default hyperparameters, it actually does affect ...
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How to Get Started with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Research
Greeting StackExchanger's, I am a software engineer interested in exploring Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for my research. However, I am new to this field and do not have practical experience ...
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Can one have good understanding on a method without having direct experience with it?
This question is in line of these previous questions on other sites: Is it possible to conduct scientific research without actually getting close to the sample/specimen? in Biology SE Is it possible ...
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ML paper reproducibility
How can I reproduce results in an ML paper if I don't have the identical resources to train the models as in the paper ? (in my case I only have a laptop spec NVidia gpu and in most of the papers I ...
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Which statistical technique should I use for a within-person repeated measures study?
I have collected all my data for a study and need to run my analysis but have come unstuck (I should have planned better beforehand I know). I'm looking to see whether personality traits (five trait ...
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Where can I find the applied data science research papers?
I'm trying to find conferences that have applied data science papers published. I'm only interested in top ranked conferences. And I notice quite a number of them are quite theoretical, e.g. IJAI, ...
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Resources for Promotion/Demotion Strategies for ML Item Recommendation Systems?
We are looking to design a system where specific items or categories of items can be boosted/promoted up or relegated/demoted down the recommendation order. What are the common strategies or standards ...