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The Cross Validation Problem

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Learning Theory (COLT 2005)

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K-fold cross validation is a commonly used technique which takes a set of m examples and partitions them into K equal-size sets (folds) of size m/K. For each set, a classifier is trained on the other sets.

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Langford, J. (2005). The Cross Validation Problem. In: Auer, P., Meir, R. (eds) Learning Theory. COLT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3559. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11503415_47

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