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I'd be careful of over applying the "bias-variance tradeoff." How to define the variance of a model is not a simple task. I wouldn't say it is immediately obvious how bias-variance relates to small data scenarios.

How much data is considered small? What is the complexity of the dataset itself?

Even in Machine Learning it is possible to learn from small datasets without transfer learning. See meta-learning for instance.

Alias-Free GAN 5 years ago

Sometimes reimplantation is impossible without the code and the paper goes on to win awards because it's by a famous scientist. Then if the reimplantation doesn't work most of the time the graduate students are blamed instead of the original work.

There are always assumptions. At least with public code and models those assumptions are laid bare for all to see and potentially expose any bad assumptions.

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