>Yes what you describe would be cheating. My approach is the opposite. What I did was "Carry your textbook to the exam and then learn from scratch during the exam"

>What I did was "You are born during the exam, given access to a training set (which is curated and allowed) and the questions then learn everything from scratch during the exam"

This is getting into metaphorgotten territory, I'd have to do a deep dive to really understand whether it is "cheating" or, more formally, a methodology that encourages overfitting.

But for what is worth, taking the textbook to the exam (regardless of whether you were born there or not), would be cheating in a test as well. Although it is possible that in the model training context it does not lead to overfitting, it certainly doesn't preclude it.

>Yes what you describe would be cheating. My approach is the opposite. What I did was "Carry your textbook to the exam and then learn from scratch during the exam"

It is comforting that someone agrees, to this day this is considered a gray-area (or not even that) by students, graduates and those that look up to the University of Buenos Aires institution.