If you’re reading this blog, then you’re probably interested in creating a custom machine learning (ML) model. I recently went through the process myself, creating a custom dog detector to go with a Codelab, Create a custom object detection web app with MediaPipe. Like any new coding task, the process took some trial and error to figure out what I was doing along the way. To minimize the error part of your « trial and error » experience, I’m happy to share five takeaways from my model training experience with you.