Apologies if I missed this in the article (or in the first article in the series) - what happens if you add two copies of the layer set? Does performance improve over adding one copy of the layer set?
Author here: That was done in this blog post, in the beam search. I started with the best re-layer configs, and iteratively added more blocks, including the same multiple times, during a long beam search.
It turns out this does not help (somewhat surprisingly).
Author here: That was done in this blog post, in the beam search. I started with the best re-layer configs, and iteratively added more blocks, including the same multiple times, during a long beam search.
It turns out this does not help (somewhat surprisingly).