How model fitting works?

[Suraj_9450 (Kumar Suraj)]

@shahnoza @lesscomfortable @jeremy
I’m a little confused about how fitting works? suppose I train a model for 3 epochs first and then 2 epochs. Is that equals to running 5 epochs in one go?

[Tendo (Tochukwu Ezike)]

Training for longer epochs does perform better than splitting the training.

Running fit_one_cycle(..) more than once

Yes, of course. The only thing that will change when unfreezing a model is that now, the bottom layers will be updated too, allowing your model to fit even better your dataset and leading to better performances.