Marine Debris Roadmap v4

FUTURE · MODEL-SELECTION POLICY

Checkpoint Selection vs Training Health

Keep checkpoint selection aligned with the competition metric while using loss curves to diagnose generalization health.

REQUIRED POLICYNO COMBINED SCOREDIAGNOSTIC TRAJECTORIES

Always inspect

  • train loss trajectory
  • validation loss trajectory
  • validation mAP trajectory

Record together

  • best-mAP epoch
  • best-validation-loss epoch
  • final epoch
Loss curves are diagnostic evidence, not a replacement checkpoint-selection metric. Do not invent a combined mAP/loss score.