# Model selection

`kaal:entity:model-selection`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `model-selection`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2017 to 2019.

**2017**

- [2998033-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2998033-022) [mechanism/argued] -- Requiring data scientists to stake a cryptocurrency on their own predictions converts private confidence into a public signal, which enables the fund to select the optimal model and improve fund performance.
  > The staking process, in turn, enables Numerai to choose the optimal model and in the process improve the performance of its hedge fund.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Innovation for Private Investment Funds (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2998033

**2019**

- [3409548-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3409548-010) [design/argued] -- Requiring data scientists to stake a cryptocurrency on their own predictions is a workable remedy for overfitting, because the stake expresses confidence in live performance and lets the fund select the optimal model.
  > The staking process, in turn, enables Numerai to choose the optimal model and in the process improve the performance of its hedge fund.
  Kaal, Financial Technology and Hedge Funds (2019). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3409548

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