I'm looking at the SAS Viya machine learing demo. It races some machine Learning algorithms against each other on a given dataset. All models produce almost equally good "lift" as shown in lift diagrams in the output. If you tweak the Learning to perform on a smaller subset of the data; only 0.002% of the total data set (proc partition data=&casdata partition samppct=0.002;), most algorithms get into problems producing lift. But the neural network is still performing very well. Feature or bug? I could imagine that the script does not re-initilize the network, but it is hard to guess from the calls alone.
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