Can the scores in this competition be kept to three decimal places? Two decimal places don't show the difference clearly.
", "messages": [ { "id": "3227126", "postDate": "06/18/2025 14:55:35", "content": "Can the scores in this competition be kept to three decimal places? Two decimal places don't show the difference clearly.
", "rawMarkdown": "Can the scores in this competition be kept to three decimal places? Two decimal places don't show the difference clearly.", "votes": null }, { "id": "3227370", "postDate": "06/18/2025 23:26:31", "content": "@jiaoyouzhang in close competitions like this, two decimal places often blur meaningful differences between models. It would definitely help if Kaggle showed scores with three decimal places for better clarity. Maybe the organizers can consider updating the leaderboard format for future rounds!
", "rawMarkdown": "jiaoyouzhang in close competitions like this, two decimal places often blur meaningful differences between models. It would definitely help if Kaggle showed scores with three decimal places for better clarity. Maybe the organizers can consider updating the leaderboard format for future rounds!", "votes": null }, { "id": "3227872", "postDate": "06/19/2025 11:39:11", "content": "Two decimal places is a hint to trust your CV & don't overfit on LB.
", "rawMarkdown": "Two decimal places is a hint to trust your CV & don't overfit on LB.", "votes": null }, { "id": "3227880", "postDate": "06/19/2025 12:03:09", "content": "Competitive incentive contests often end up with some overfitting. I will look for a solution that is stable on the LB, with the smallest possible score fluctuations.
", "rawMarkdown": "Competitive incentive contests often end up with some overfitting. I will look for a solution that is stable on the LB, with the smallest possible score fluctuations.", "votes": null }, { "id": "3227896", "postDate": "06/19/2025 12:34:19", "content": "As a workaround, you can rank your submissions by score to manage if CV improvements correlate with LB.
", "rawMarkdown": "As a workaround, you can rank your submissions by score to manage if CV improvements correlate with LB.", "votes": null }, { "id": "3235484", "postDate": "06/29/2025 09:54:30", "content": "@addisonhoward Hello, is it possible to show 3 decimal places? Just 2 indeed affects some of our judgment.
", "rawMarkdown": "addisonhoward Hello, is it possible to show 3 decimal places? Just 2 indeed affects some of our judgment.", "votes": null } ], "comments": [ { "id": 3227370, "author_name": "abdulrehmanchatha", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/18/2025 23:26:31", "content": "@jiaoyouzhang in close competitions like this, two decimal places often blur meaningful differences between models. It would definitely help if Kaggle showed scores with three decimal places for better clarity. Maybe the organizers can consider updating the leaderboard format for future rounds!
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 3227872, "author_name": "ogurtsov", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/19/2025 11:39:11", "content": "Two decimal places is a hint to trust your CV & don't overfit on LB.
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3227880, "author_name": "jiaoyouzhang", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/19/2025 12:03:09", "content": "Competitive incentive contests often end up with some overfitting. I will look for a solution that is stable on the LB, with the smallest possible score fluctuations.
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3227896, "author_name": "ogurtsov", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/19/2025 12:34:19", "content": "As a workaround, you can rank your submissions by score to manage if CV improvements correlate with LB.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] } ] }, { "id": 3235484, "author_name": "zui0711", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/29/2025 09:54:30", "content": "@addisonhoward Hello, is it possible to show 3 decimal places? Just 2 indeed affects some of our judgment.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "3227126": "Can the scores in this competition be kept to three decimal places? Two decimal places don't show the difference clearly.", "3227370": "jiaoyouzhang in close competitions like this, two decimal places often blur meaningful differences between models. It would definitely help if Kaggle showed scores with three decimal places for better clarity. Maybe the organizers can consider updating the leaderboard format for future rounds!", "3227872": "Two decimal places is a hint to trust your CV & don't overfit on LB.", "3227880": "Competitive incentive contests often end up with some overfitting. I will look for a solution that is stable on the LB, with the smallest possible score fluctuations.", "3227896": "As a workaround, you can rank your submissions by score to manage if CV improvements correlate with LB.", "3235484": "addisonhoward Hello, is it possible to show 3 decimal places? Just 2 indeed affects some of our judgment." }, "source": "meta" }