Updated AveragedPerceptron default iterations from 1 to 10 #5258
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@justinormont This is the PR with just AveragedPerceptron updates in it. It should be easier to review then the other combined one. |
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Good to see the EntryPoint manifest is updated.
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Any reason for changing the seed?
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Since we are now doing 10 iterations, the seed of 42 causes the test to have lower metrics than the test wants. When we change the seed to 0, the metrics are above the minimum values the test wants.
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You may want to just change the expected output instead re-rolling the dice to get better metrics. This hopefully keeps the output metric more inline with the expected metrics (across a variety of seeds).
As a comparison, if a user changed their seed to get better metrics on their ML model, I'd tell them their metrics are no longer representative of how their model will do in production.
Background for other folks following:
For most unit tests, the datasets are so small as to make the metrics only useful for checking if something has changed. The exact values (and increase/decrease) are generally not important. In this case, we changed the number of iterations, and the output metrics are expected to move.
For the change of this default hyperparameter, we (me specifically) benchmarked on a large variety of datasets to verify that the overall impact is positive (write-up).
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I see this correctly changed the number of iterations in the MAML based unit tests, for example:
-Warning: Skipped 15 instances with missing features during training (over 1 iterations; 15 inst/iter)
+Warning: Skipped 150 instances with missing features during training (over 10 iterations; 15 inst/iter)Do we have a unit test for AveragedPerceptron using the Estimator API? If you haven't, it would be good to verify the new defaults take hold for the AP Estimator API.
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We do. The OvaAveragedPerceptron test in OvaTests.cs is an Estimator API test. I have confirmed using that test that the new defaults are there correctly as well.
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Per issue #4749, changes the default AveragePerceptron iteration count from 1 to 10. Also updates all baseline files that were updated as a result.