Classic overfitting or something else

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Classic overfitting or something else?

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Classic overfitting if the curves separate smoothly. If validation loss jumps around, suspect the split instead: leakage between sets, or a validation set too small to be stable. Plot both losses per epoch before touching regularisation.

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Same code, same data, different results on another machine.

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Seed every source of randomness, pin the library versions, and disable nondeterministic kernels on the GPU. Even then expect small differences from floating point order; the goal is results that agree within noise, not bitwise equality.

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What would you skip entirely?

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The reporting layer, until something forces it. It is the part that feels productive to build and the part nobody opens twice.