{
  "id": 122490,
  "title": "Query on uploading trained models",
  "url": "/competitions/bengaliai-cv19/discussion/122490",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-12-20T14:09:06.344391400Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 3,
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  "content": "<p>I had a query regarding this competition. Are we allowed to train our models outside the Kaggle kernels environment and then upload the saved model to make predictions on test set in Kaggle kernels? Can the competition organizers provide clarity on this?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "699488",
      "postDate": "12/20/2019 14:09:06",
      "content": "<p>I had a query regarding this competition. Are we allowed to train our models outside the Kaggle kernels environment and then upload the saved model to make predictions on test set in Kaggle kernels? Can the competition organizers provide clarity on this?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I had a query regarding this competition. Are we allowed to train our models outside the Kaggle kernels environment and then upload the saved model to make predictions on test set in Kaggle kernels? Can the competition organizers provide clarity on this?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "699625",
      "postDate": "12/20/2019 17:04:13",
      "content": "<p>Per the notebooks requirements tab: <code>External data is allowed, and you are encouraged to train your model offline and use your Notebook for inference.</code></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Per the notebooks requirements tab: `External data is allowed, and you are encouraged to train your model offline and use your Notebook for inference.`",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "699630",
      "postDate": "12/20/2019 17:18:37",
      "content": "<p>Thank you for clarifying. This is helpful.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you for clarifying. This is helpful.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "699682",
      "postDate": "12/20/2019 18:56:56",
      "content": "<p>Yes, you can train offline! Here's a notebook showing how to do <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/pestipeti/simple-pytorch-inference/data\">inference with offline trained model.</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yes, you can train offline! Here's a notebook showing how to do [inference with offline trained model.](https://www.kaggle.com/pestipeti/simple-pytorch-inference/data)",
      "votes": null
    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 699625,
      "author_name": "sohier",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/20/2019 17:04:13",
      "content": "<p>Per the notebooks requirements tab: <code>External data is allowed, and you are encouraged to train your model offline and use your Notebook for inference.</code></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 699630,
          "author_name": "sandy1112",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/20/2019 17:18:37",
          "content": "<p>Thank you for clarifying. This is helpful.</p>",
          "votes": null,
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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 699682,
      "author_name": "reasat",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/20/2019 18:56:56",
      "content": "<p>Yes, you can train offline! Here's a notebook showing how to do <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/pestipeti/simple-pytorch-inference/data\">inference with offline trained model.</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
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    "699488": "I had a query regarding this competition. Are we allowed to train our models outside the Kaggle kernels environment and then upload the saved model to make predictions on test set in Kaggle kernels? Can the competition organizers provide clarity on this?",
    "699625": "Per the notebooks requirements tab: `External data is allowed, and you are encouraged to train your model offline and use your Notebook for inference.`",
    "699630": "Thank you for clarifying. This is helpful.",
    "699682": "Yes, you can train offline! Here's a notebook showing how to do [inference with offline trained model.](https://www.kaggle.com/pestipeti/simple-pytorch-inference/data)"
  },
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