# Which Model is Better?

**URL:** <https://forum.numer.ai/t/which-model-is-better/4841>\
**Category:** Tournament\
**Created:** [January 23, 2022, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/which-model-is-better/4841 "2022-01-23T03:56:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![maxchu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dec6dc/32.png) [@maxchu](https://forum.numer.ai/u/maxchu)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/which-model-is-better/4841/14 "2022-01-24T05:00:03Z")

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> [@Diagnostics for #39](http://forum.numer.ai/t/diagnostics-for-39/4155):
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> Diagnostics are built to help us, but they can be very misleading. My most successfull model, which stands at #39 at the time of writing (nyuton\_test8) has so bad diagnostics, that I almost threw it out at the beginning and I haven’t started staking on it until recently. Trust you CV! I’m writing this post partly for myself as a reminder, when I see similar results with the new dataset. To be frank, this model uses an ensemble of models from CV folds. Data also includes validation set. This …

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