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dhruv3006yesterday at 1:29 PM1 replyview on HN

> The mentioned approach is fundamentally flawed, since the inputs are used during pretraining constituting to a leakage, a universally recognized flaw of ML training.

I saw this on the community note for the last blog you wrote - anything to do here.


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evilmathkidyesterday at 8:41 PM

Not true. This is allowed in a metalearning context. Its called transductive learning and has existed since the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transduction_(machine_learning...

I address this in more detail in the blog