Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

graduate student descent

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English

Syllables: grad-u-ate s-tu-den-t de-s-cent
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

8

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The process of choosing hyperparameters manually and in an ad-hoc manner, typical of work assigned to a graduate student.

Humorous; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Phrase of the day, "Graduate Student Descent." Optimization through graduate student tweaking."
"[…] people without real-world experience often ignore systematic approaches to hyperparameter tuning in favor of manual, gut-feeling approach. The most popular method is arguably 'Graduate Student Descent (GSD) […]"
"Instead of hypothesis-forming based on theory, extensive research on previous studies and/or reflection against the existing domain knowledge, grad student descent […] is applied."

Etymology

Modeled on gradient descent. Attributed to David A. McAllester.

Usage

Questions

What does graduate student descent mean?: The process of choosing hyperparameters manually and in an ad-hoc manner, typical of work assigned to a graduate student.
Where does graduate student descent come from?: Modeled on gradient descent. Attributed to David A. McAllester.

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