{
  "id": 121733,
  "title": "How to make our LB score more than 0.99？",
  "url": "/competitions/Kannada-MNIST/discussion/121733",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-12-15T07:28:31.690539600Z",
  "votes": 5,
  "comment_count": 14,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I've tried many, many times, and by any ways I can't reach the score of 0.99 or above on the LB. I would like to ask those teachers about 0.99 points, how does this work? thanks.🙏 🙏 </p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "695465",
      "postDate": "12/15/2019 07:28:31",
      "content": "<p>I've tried many, many times, and by any ways I can't reach the score of 0.99 or above on the LB. I would like to ask those teachers about 0.99 points, how does this work? thanks.🙏 🙏 </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I've tried many, many times, and by any ways I can't reach the score of 0.99 or above on the LB. I would like to ask those teachers about 0.99 points, how does this work? thanks.🙏 🙏",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "695466",
      "postDate": "12/15/2019 07:30:03",
      "content": "<p>Now my highest score on LB is 0.98940....😫 </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Now my highest score on LB is 0.98940....😫",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "695480",
      "postDate": "12/15/2019 08:05:04",
      "content": "<p>I am sure that you must have tried all those fancy techniques( Earlystopping, reducing learning rate, ImageDataGenerator etc.) since your score is 0.989.\n I have experienced some kind of a weird thing happening here on kaggle, as I ran same code in two different times and got 0.988 in one and 0.992 in the other !\nSo I would suggest that you run your code again and see for these changing public scores for yourself.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I am sure that you must have tried all those fancy techniques( Earlystopping, reducing learning rate, ImageDataGenerator etc.) since your score is 0.989.\n I have experienced some kind of a weird thing happening here on kaggle, as I ran same code in two different times and got 0.988 in one and 0.992 in the other !\nSo I would suggest that you run your code again and see for these changing public scores for yourself.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "695482",
      "postDate": "12/15/2019 08:09:42",
      "content": "<p>Did your score change this time?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Did your score change this time?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "695504",
      "postDate": "12/15/2019 08:58:45",
      "content": "<p>I also found that, the scores are different from different codes, I will try again, thank you!👍 </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I also found that, the scores are different from different codes, I will try again, thank you!👍",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "695505",
      "postDate": "12/15/2019 09:01:42",
      "content": "<p>nothing happened.😭 </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "nothing happened.😭",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "695722",
      "postDate": "12/15/2019 13:45:02",
      "content": "<p>The score difference is not so meaningful, because you just try to overfit  the public test data.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The score difference is not so meaningful, because you just try to overfit  the public test data.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "695775",
      "postDate": "12/15/2019 14:42:50",
      "content": "<p>this is truth, well done，thank you！！👍 </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "this is truth, well done，thank you！！👍",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "695979",
      "postDate": "12/16/2019 00:46:40",
      "content": "<p>yeah I am having trouble pushing through .9890. think I am getting into the touch part were I need to tweak a hyper parameter just right and just get lucky lol</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "yeah I am having trouble pushing through .9890. think I am getting into the touch part were I need to tweak a hyper parameter just right and just get lucky lol",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "696132",
      "postDate": "12/16/2019 06:58:05",
      "content": "<p>good luck！！！ lol</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "good luck！！！ lol",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "696473",
      "postDate": "12/16/2019 16:37:16",
      "content": "<p>After a month of not breaking through 0.98900 I jumped to 0.99000 yesterday. I have tried so many different things including Logistic Regression on the output of 8 CNN models lol. </p>\n\n<p>I went back to one of my simpler models and just increased my validation proportion to 0.25 from 0.20 and changed my random seed. I guess the new distribution of data was all it took.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "After a month of not breaking through 0.98900 I jumped to 0.99000 yesterday. I have tried so many different things including Logistic Regression on the output of 8 CNN models lol. \n\nI went back to one of my simpler models and just increased my validation proportion to 0.25 from 0.20 and changed my random seed. I guess the new distribution of data was all it took.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "697114",
      "postDate": "12/17/2019 13:53:42",
      "content": "<p>I have used swish, instead of other activation functions ( ReLu, LeakyReLu, Sigmoid etc.) So, I have increased my score 0.98 to 0.99 </p>\n\n<p>More Info: <a href=\"https://www.machinecurve.com/index.php/2019/05/30/why-swish-could-perform-better-than-relu/\">https://www.machinecurve.com/index.php/2019/05/30/why-swish-could-perform-better-than-relu/</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have used swish, instead of other activation functions ( ReLu, LeakyReLu, Sigmoid etc.) So, I have increased my score 0.98 to 0.99 \n\nMore Info: https://www.machinecurve.com/index.php/2019/05/30/why-swish-could-perform-better-than-relu/",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "697142",
      "postDate": "12/17/2019 14:28:09",
      "content": "<p>Thanks a lot！I learned it from the website you shared. lol👍   I will\n try it right now.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks a lot！I learned it from the website you shared. lol👍   I will\n try it right now.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "697487",
      "postDate": "12/18/2019 01:44:29",
      "content": "<p>this is very useful information! thanks!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "this is very useful information! thanks!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "697488",
      "postDate": "12/18/2019 01:52:05",
      "content": "<p>Are you means, output with activation sigmoid function to 10 categories classifier on Dense layer?\nand ensemble it?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Are you means, output with activation sigmoid function to 10 categories classifier on Dense layer?\nand ensemble it?",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 695466,
      "author_name": "yyysjz",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/15/2019 07:30:03",
      "content": "<p>Now my highest score on LB is 0.98940....😫 </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 695482,
          "author_name": "amitjslearn",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/15/2019 08:09:42",
          "content": "<p>Did your score change this time?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 695505,
          "author_name": "yyysjz",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/15/2019 09:01:42",
          "content": "<p>nothing happened.😭 </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 695480,
      "author_name": "namanj27",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/15/2019 08:05:04",
      "content": "<p>I am sure that you must have tried all those fancy techniques( Earlystopping, reducing learning rate, ImageDataGenerator etc.) since your score is 0.989.\n I have experienced some kind of a weird thing happening here on kaggle, as I ran same code in two different times and got 0.988 in one and 0.992 in the other !\nSo I would suggest that you run your code again and see for these changing public scores for yourself.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 695504,
          "author_name": "yyysjz",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/15/2019 08:58:45",
          "content": "<p>I also found that, the scores are different from different codes, I will try again, thank you!👍 </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 695722,
          "author_name": "lhy1997",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/15/2019 13:45:02",
          "content": "<p>The score difference is not so meaningful, because you just try to overfit  the public test data.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 695775,
          "author_name": "yyysjz",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/15/2019 14:42:50",
          "content": "<p>this is truth, well done，thank you！！👍 </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 695979,
      "author_name": "georgedittmar",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/16/2019 00:46:40",
      "content": "<p>yeah I am having trouble pushing through .9890. think I am getting into the touch part were I need to tweak a hyper parameter just right and just get lucky lol</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 696132,
          "author_name": "yyysjz",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/16/2019 06:58:05",
          "content": "<p>good luck！！！ lol</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 696473,
      "author_name": "mutantspore",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/16/2019 16:37:16",
      "content": "<p>After a month of not breaking through 0.98900 I jumped to 0.99000 yesterday. I have tried so many different things including Logistic Regression on the output of 8 CNN models lol. </p>\n\n<p>I went back to one of my simpler models and just increased my validation proportion to 0.25 from 0.20 and changed my random seed. I guess the new distribution of data was all it took.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 697488,
          "author_name": "ensembleman",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/18/2019 01:52:05",
          "content": "<p>Are you means, output with activation sigmoid function to 10 categories classifier on Dense layer?\nand ensemble it?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 697114,
      "author_name": "mcagriaksoy",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/17/2019 13:53:42",
      "content": "<p>I have used swish, instead of other activation functions ( ReLu, LeakyReLu, Sigmoid etc.) So, I have increased my score 0.98 to 0.99 </p>\n\n<p>More Info: <a href=\"https://www.machinecurve.com/index.php/2019/05/30/why-swish-could-perform-better-than-relu/\">https://www.machinecurve.com/index.php/2019/05/30/why-swish-could-perform-better-than-relu/</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 697142,
          "author_name": "yyysjz",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/17/2019 14:28:09",
          "content": "<p>Thanks a lot！I learned it from the website you shared. lol👍   I will\n try it right now.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 697487,
          "author_name": "ensembleman",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/18/2019 01:44:29",
          "content": "<p>this is very useful information! thanks!</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
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    "695465": "I've tried many, many times, and by any ways I can't reach the score of 0.99 or above on the LB. I would like to ask those teachers about 0.99 points, how does this work? thanks.🙏 🙏",
    "695466": "Now my highest score on LB is 0.98940....😫",
    "695480": "I am sure that you must have tried all those fancy techniques( Earlystopping, reducing learning rate, ImageDataGenerator etc.) since your score is 0.989.\n I have experienced some kind of a weird thing happening here on kaggle, as I ran same code in two different times and got 0.988 in one and 0.992 in the other !\nSo I would suggest that you run your code again and see for these changing public scores for yourself.",
    "695482": "Did your score change this time?",
    "695504": "I also found that, the scores are different from different codes, I will try again, thank you!👍",
    "695505": "nothing happened.😭",
    "695722": "The score difference is not so meaningful, because you just try to overfit  the public test data.",
    "695775": "this is truth, well done，thank you！！👍",
    "695979": "yeah I am having trouble pushing through .9890. think I am getting into the touch part were I need to tweak a hyper parameter just right and just get lucky lol",
    "696132": "good luck！！！ lol",
    "696473": "After a month of not breaking through 0.98900 I jumped to 0.99000 yesterday. I have tried so many different things including Logistic Regression on the output of 8 CNN models lol. \n\nI went back to one of my simpler models and just increased my validation proportion to 0.25 from 0.20 and changed my random seed. I guess the new distribution of data was all it took.",
    "697114": "I have used swish, instead of other activation functions ( ReLu, LeakyReLu, Sigmoid etc.) So, I have increased my score 0.98 to 0.99 \n\nMore Info: https://www.machinecurve.com/index.php/2019/05/30/why-swish-could-perform-better-than-relu/",
    "697142": "Thanks a lot！I learned it from the website you shared. lol👍   I will\n try it right now.",
    "697487": "this is very useful information! thanks!",
    "697488": "Are you means, output with activation sigmoid function to 10 categories classifier on Dense layer?\nand ensemble it?"
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