Meaning of graduate student descent | Babel Free

Definitions

The process of choosing hyperparameters manually and in an ad-hoc manner, typical of work assigned to a graduate student.

humorous, uncountable

Examples

“Phrase of the day, "Graduate Student Descent." Optimization through graduate student tweaking.”

“[…] people without real-world experience often ignore systematic approaches to hyperparameter tuning in favor of manual, gut-feeling approach. The most popular method is arguably 'Graduate Student Descent (GSD) […]”

“Instead of hypothesis-forming based on theory, extensive research on previous studies and/or reflection against the existing domain knowledge, grad student descent […] is applied.”

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