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  "id": 170396,
  "title": "How does one use ensembles?",
  "url": "/competitions/siim-isic-melanoma-classification/discussion/170396",
  "author_name": "TeYang Lau",
  "post_date": "2020-07-27T13:41:28.714000",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 2,
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  "content": "<p>Hi, I am new to using ensembles in neural networks. How does one go about doing this? </p>\n\n<p>For example, if I want to train a CNN on the images and train a logistic regression on the meta features, do I train them both separately, get 2 lists of predictions, after which I use majority voting/averaging to get the final predictions?</p>",
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      "postDate": "2020-07-27T13:41:28.713Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi, I am new to using ensembles in neural networks. How does one go about doing this? </p>\n\n<p>For example, if I want to train a CNN on the images and train a logistic regression on the meta features, do I train them both separately, get 2 lists of predictions, after which I use majority voting/averaging to get the final predictions?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi, I am new to using ensembles in neural networks. How does one go about doing this? \n\nFor example, if I want to train a CNN on the images and train a logistic regression on the meta features, do I train them both separately, get 2 lists of predictions, after which I use majority voting/averaging to get the final predictions?",
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      "postDate": "2020-07-27T15:00:40.943Z",
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          "id": 947937,
          "postDate": "2020-07-27T15:04:37.640Z",
          "content": "<p>Great thanks a lot</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Great thanks a lot",
          "votes": 1
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          "author_name": "Rony",
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          "post_date": "2020-07-27T15:04:37.640000",
          "content": "<p>Great thanks a lot</p>",
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    "947797": "Hi, I am new to using ensembles in neural networks. How does one go about doing this? \n\nFor example, if I want to train a CNN on the images and train a logistic regression on the meta features, do I train them both separately, get 2 lists of predictions, after which I use majority voting/averaging to get the final predictions?",
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