use max-epoch5 v.s. early stop

[yitang]

Hi, I am new to DL and i wonder what's the reason behind using small epoch (5) and not using early stop?

Thanks,

[chenyuntc]

Actually I use another kind of early stop:

• if val acc rises: save the model, keep training
• if val acc drops: load previous best model, decay lr

see here

5 epochs are not enough, Usually, I will finetune another 2 epochs with smaller lr.