Citations:graduate student descent

English citations of graduate student descent

Noun: "process of choosing hyperparameters manually and in a ad-hoc manner"

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  • [2011 December 16, Nicolas Pinto, “High-Performance Computing Needs Machine Learning... And Vice Versa”, in SlideShare[1], retrieved 2021-09-27:
    How are things done normally? Usual Formula: 1) One grad student 2) One Model (size limited by runtime) 3) Performance numbers on a few standard test sets 4) yay. we. rock. 5) One Ph.D. How do you call this? "This is graduate student descent" - David McAllester]
  • [2014 January 25, Science Dryad [username], “Grad student descent”, in Science Dyrad[2], WordPress, retrieved 2021-09-27:
    One method, common in academia, is ‘grad student descent’ (a pun on gradient descent), in which a graduate student fiddles around with the parameters until it works.]