[qsera]

Yea, because "seeing" is also tweaking the parameters. Which this example is doing manually.

So I don't understand how any one can make the claim that the model as not seen it. Because the internal transformation is similar.

[Lerc]

You are going to have to be more specific, because that reads like nonsense.

By what mechanism do you propose the model observed the test set?

[qsera]

>By what mechanism do you propose the model observed the test set..

By explicitly setting the model parameters.

What happens when a model is trained? We tweak the model parameters by some feed back.

In both cases, you affect the model parameters. Only the method is different. So both are eqvialent to "model observing the test set".