RecSys veterans on repeated data overfitting: 'that's why we only train one epoch'

thomasahle · x · 2026-10-11

Joey Lee flagged that engram/n-gram approaches may markedly amplify overfitting under data repetition. RecSys practitioner YouJiacheng quipped in response: "that's why we only train one epoch" — pointing out the recommendation-systems community's long-standing single-epoch training habit reflects hard-won experience with data repetition issues.

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