Conflicting statements on train/val loss in 2018 and 2019 course

[marcmuc (Marc P. Rostock)]

Lesson 2: further discussion

I think the element if ‘time’ /direction is important, so if train loss is lower than val loss,but both keep going down epoch after epoch, you are not yet overfitting. if train loss is going down, but val loss up, that is definitely overfitting.

have a look at the messages above and below mine in that thread, which basically asks the same question…