Note on Free Lunches and Cross-Validation
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in Neural Computation
- Vol. 9 (6) , 1245-1249
- https://doi.org/10.1162/neco.1997.9.6.1245
Abstract
The “no-free-lunch” theorems (Wolpert & Macready, 1995) have sparked heated debate in the computational learning community. A recent communication (Zhu & Rohwer, 1996) attempts to demonstrate the inefficiency of cross-validation on a simple problem. We elaborate on this result by considering a broader class of cross-validation. When used more strictly, cross-validation can yield the expected results on simple examples.Keywords
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