Overfitting in AI Models Discouraged in Data Science Competition: A Case Study on Kaggle's The Nature Conservancy Fisheries Monitoring

May 1, 2017

In the 'The Nature Conservancy Fisheries Monitoring' competition on data science platform Kaggle, competitors overfit their image classifier models to an unrepresentative validation dataset. This incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). To prevent similar incidents and promote trustworthy AI, join us.JOIN US
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