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  "id": 87462,
  "title": "Is there enough time to do ensemble?",
  "url": "/competitions/imet-2019-fgvc6/discussion/87462",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-04-01T03:28:22.224120200Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 9,
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  "content": "<p>Because of the limit time of GPU, is there enough time to do ensemble?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "504699",
      "postDate": "04/01/2019 03:28:22",
      "content": "<p>Because of the limit time of GPU, is there enough time to do ensemble?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Because of the limit time of GPU, is there enough time to do ensemble?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "504862",
      "postDate": "04/01/2019 09:41:18",
      "content": "<p>I believe for kaggler there are always enough time for ensembling but at this particular competition it might be better to spend time fintetuning your model.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I believe for kaggler there are always enough time for ensembling but at this particular competition it might be better to spend time fintetuning your model.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "504943",
      "postDate": "04/01/2019 10:57:13",
      "content": "<p>Maybe snapshot ensembling can be usefull here (<a href=\"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00109.pdf\">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00109.pdf</a>).</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Maybe snapshot ensembling can be usefull here (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00109.pdf).",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "516004",
      "postDate": "04/13/2019 14:16:28",
      "content": "<p>for this competition, do we have to ensemble models on local and inference on the kernel?? I'm not sure that I understood the competition right cause this is the first time for me to participate. thx :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "for this competition, do we have to ensemble models on local and inference on the kernel?? I'm not sure that I understood the competition right cause this is the first time for me to participate. thx :)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "516063",
      "postDate": "04/13/2019 15:13:52",
      "content": "<p>First of all, it's not necessary to ensemble models - start with single one :) But yes, you train your models locally and then load your checkpoints as Datasets and do inference in kaggle kernel. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "First of all, it's not necessary to ensemble models - start with single one :) But yes, you train your models locally and then load your checkpoints as Datasets and do inference in kaggle kernel.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "516358",
      "postDate": "04/14/2019 03:48:52",
      "content": "<p>I thought ensemble was critical in deep learning competition. ensembling always(?) improves the model performance by little. isn't this right?? thanks I will start by one model first :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I thought ensemble was critical in deep learning competition. ensembling always(?) improves the model performance by little. isn't this right?? thanks I will start by one model first :)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "516393",
      "postDate": "04/14/2019 04:58:40",
      "content": "<p>What is special about this model, why is the snapshot integration method easy to use?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "What is special about this model, why is the snapshot integration method easy to use?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "516395",
      "postDate": "04/14/2019 05:04:31",
      "content": "<p>I used to did ensembling, but my score didn't boost, maybe my methods have problem, I will focus on it before the competition deadline </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I used to did ensembling, but my score didn't boost, maybe my methods have problem, I will focus on it before the competition deadline",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "516536",
      "postDate": "04/14/2019 11:29:12",
      "content": "<p>will be helpful if you discuss about it later keep going!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "will be helpful if you discuss about it later keep going!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "516623",
      "postDate": "04/14/2019 15:11:36",
      "content": "<p>ok</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "ok",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 504862,
      "author_name": "yaroshevskiy",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/01/2019 09:41:18",
      "content": "<p>I believe for kaggler there are always enough time for ensembling but at this particular competition it might be better to spend time fintetuning your model.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 516004,
          "author_name": "yangsaewon",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/13/2019 14:16:28",
          "content": "<p>for this competition, do we have to ensemble models on local and inference on the kernel?? I'm not sure that I understood the competition right cause this is the first time for me to participate. thx :)</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 516063,
          "author_name": "yaroshevskiy",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/13/2019 15:13:52",
          "content": "<p>First of all, it's not necessary to ensemble models - start with single one :) But yes, you train your models locally and then load your checkpoints as Datasets and do inference in kaggle kernel. </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 516358,
          "author_name": "yangsaewon",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/14/2019 03:48:52",
          "content": "<p>I thought ensemble was critical in deep learning competition. ensembling always(?) improves the model performance by little. isn't this right?? thanks I will start by one model first :)</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 504943,
      "author_name": "mnpinto",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/01/2019 10:57:13",
      "content": "<p>Maybe snapshot ensembling can be usefull here (<a href=\"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00109.pdf\">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00109.pdf</a>).</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 516393,
          "author_name": "",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/14/2019 04:58:40",
          "content": "<p>What is special about this model, why is the snapshot integration method easy to use?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 516395,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/14/2019 05:04:31",
      "content": "<p>I used to did ensembling, but my score didn't boost, maybe my methods have problem, I will focus on it before the competition deadline </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 516536,
          "author_name": "yangsaewon",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/14/2019 11:29:12",
          "content": "<p>will be helpful if you discuss about it later keep going!</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 516623,
          "author_name": "",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/14/2019 15:11:36",
          "content": "<p>ok</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "504699": "Because of the limit time of GPU, is there enough time to do ensemble?",
    "504862": "I believe for kaggler there are always enough time for ensembling but at this particular competition it might be better to spend time fintetuning your model.",
    "504943": "Maybe snapshot ensembling can be usefull here (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00109.pdf).",
    "516004": "for this competition, do we have to ensemble models on local and inference on the kernel?? I'm not sure that I understood the competition right cause this is the first time for me to participate. thx :)",
    "516063": "First of all, it's not necessary to ensemble models - start with single one :) But yes, you train your models locally and then load your checkpoints as Datasets and do inference in kaggle kernel.",
    "516358": "I thought ensemble was critical in deep learning competition. ensembling always(?) improves the model performance by little. isn't this right?? thanks I will start by one model first :)",
    "516393": "What is special about this model, why is the snapshot integration method easy to use?",
    "516395": "I used to did ensembling, but my score didn't boost, maybe my methods have problem, I will focus on it before the competition deadline",
    "516536": "will be helpful if you discuss about it later keep going!",
    "516623": "ok"
  },
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