Comment by einpoklum
10 months ago
No, that is patently false. Many optimization algorithms which computer scientists, mathematicians or software developers devise do not involve benchmakrs at all, and apply to all possible inputs/instances of their respective computational problems.
Plot twist: the loss function for training is basically a benchmark
Is it a plot twist if it’s the whole plot?
Example?
Those times when people write code with loads of theoretical micro optimisations that they never actually test against a benchmark because otherwise they wouldn't do it.
Perhaps “example” means different things in different cultures.
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