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Allow for custom evaluation procedures

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend-api-design

Research direction

Start by reading the linked Slack thread and the server's existing evaluation-procedure handling; the issue names no files or tests. A decision on whether and how custom procedures are supported, including availability across task types and consistency of experimental results, would define what done looks like.

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Description

Based on this thread. We should discuss whether we want to allow people to create custom evaluation procedures (e.g., “30 times 3-fold Crossvalidation”) and how we want to support this. Possible concerns include spotty availability (might not support the entire tasktype x procedure matrix) and splintering experimental results. But there are of course also obvious benefits :)

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