Statistics and experimental design · MLD-0002
Ablation study
An experiment removing or changing components to test their contribution.
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Original example
Retrain without a proposed auxiliary loss.
Original caveat
Ablating a component can introduce distribution changes.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Theory · Evaluation · Research.
Tags: ML · DL · SLM · LLM.
Aliases: Ablation experiment.
Related concepts
Concepts linking here
Original references
- scikit-learn: cross-validation ↗ · Reference link
- Mathematics for Machine Learning ↗ · Reference link
- scikit-learn: evaluation metrics ↗ · Reference link
- Original reference URL ↗