About validation and the different ways to create a Validation Set you can already find some posts in this blog.

Since the last version of Transkribus (1.12.0) there is a new way to create Validation Sets. Transkribus takes a certain amount (2%, 5% or 10%) of the Ground Truth from the Train Set during the compilation of the training data and creates a Validation Set automatically. This set consists of randomly selected pages.

These Validation Sets are created in the Transkribus training tool. You start as usual by entering the training parameters of the model. But before you add the Ground Truth to the Train Set, you select the desired percentage for the Validation Set. This order is important. Every time you add a new document to the Train Set, Transkribus will extract the corresponding pages for the Validation Set.

The new tool is very well suited for large models with a lot of ground truth, especially if you don’t care about setting up special Validation Sets or if you find it difficult for representative models