Gavin C. Cawley Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-11-05
Coauthor with Nicola L. C. Talbot of research on overfitting during model selection. Their analysis explains how repeatedly optimizing a validation criterion can bias the final performance estimate.[ref]
Published in Journal of Machine Learning Research, 11(70):2079–2107.
Cited passages: On Over-fitting in Model Selection and Subsequent Selection Bias in Performance Evaluation, introduction, pp. 2079–2080: selection as part of fitting and nested assessment.