limiting the number of excursion in an iterator

[mducoffe]

[dwf]

Can you provide an example of where you might use this? It seems like most schemes provide a way to limit the number of returned batches/examples automatically based on their constructor arguments.

[mducoffe]

When evaluating on the validation set I would like to use a random subset of the minibatches using this iterator and ShuffledScheme. Like that I can have a rough idea of the performance when trying the hyperparameters

2015-06-22 16:12 GMT-04:00 David Warde-Farley [email protected]:

Can you provide an example of where you might use this? It seems like most schemes provide a way to limit the number of returned batches/examples automatically based on their constructor arguments.

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[dwf]

Okay. The name could probably be better too -- it's unclear in what way it would be "limited". Perhaps "TruncatedEpochScheme"? @rizar might have an opinion.

[vdumoulin]

I'd be okay with TruncatedEpochScheme.

[vdumoulin]

@mducoffe I'm doing a cleanup of the open PRs. Would you still like to go ahead with this one?