{
  "id": 160238,
  "title": "External Model Weights",
  "url": "/competitions/siim-isic-melanoma-classification/discussion/160238",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-06-20T11:59:37.370514600Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I have trained my model weights on my local machine and have uploaded it for inference. Do my weights come under the external data and needed to be made public?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "894400",
      "postDate": "06/20/2020 11:59:37",
      "content": "<p>I have trained my model weights on my local machine and have uploaded it for inference. Do my weights come under the external data and needed to be made public?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have trained my model weights on my local machine and have uploaded it for inference. Do my weights come under the external data and needed to be made public?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "894751",
      "postDate": "06/20/2020 18:10:00",
      "content": "<p>I don't have any official role, but I cannot see how your personally calculated weights would be considered external data. You created themselves from a model. If you imported somebody else's weights, like imagenet weights, then that would be external data.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I don't have any official role, but I cannot see how your personally calculated weights would be considered external data. You created themselves from a model. If you imported somebody else's weights, like imagenet weights, then that would be external data.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "894752",
      "postDate": "06/20/2020 18:15:38",
      "content": "<p>Like should I mention it or just use them after uploading as those are uploaded as external data on kaggle?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Like should I mention it or just use them after uploading as those are uploaded as external data on kaggle?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "894753",
      "postDate": "06/20/2020 18:17:48",
      "content": "<p>I don't think you need to mention. If you win, you will need to show the code/model that you used to generate the weights. Many people use only their local computers and never upload any weights or run anything on Kaggle notebooks/colab.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I don't think you need to mention. If you win, you will need to show the code/model that you used to generate the weights. Many people use only their local computers and never upload any weights or run anything on Kaggle notebooks/colab.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 894751,
      "author_name": "richardepstein",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/20/2020 18:10:00",
      "content": "<p>I don't have any official role, but I cannot see how your personally calculated weights would be considered external data. You created themselves from a model. If you imported somebody else's weights, like imagenet weights, then that would be external data.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 894752,
          "author_name": "anitho2910",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/20/2020 18:15:38",
          "content": "<p>Like should I mention it or just use them after uploading as those are uploaded as external data on kaggle?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 894753,
      "author_name": "richardepstein",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/20/2020 18:17:48",
      "content": "<p>I don't think you need to mention. If you win, you will need to show the code/model that you used to generate the weights. Many people use only their local computers and never upload any weights or run anything on Kaggle notebooks/colab.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "894400": "I have trained my model weights on my local machine and have uploaded it for inference. Do my weights come under the external data and needed to be made public?",
    "894751": "I don't have any official role, but I cannot see how your personally calculated weights would be considered external data. You created themselves from a model. If you imported somebody else's weights, like imagenet weights, then that would be external data.",
    "894752": "Like should I mention it or just use them after uploading as those are uploaded as external data on kaggle?",
    "894753": "I don't think you need to mention. If you win, you will need to show the code/model that you used to generate the weights. Many people use only their local computers and never upload any weights or run anything on Kaggle notebooks/colab."
  },
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}