Over-fitting and peeking at the test set are completely different things. Over-fitting may in fact degrade performance on a test set, because it means you are giving too much weight to idiosyncratic patterns in the training data. Peeking at the test data, however, is right out, and should invalidate any results you try to report.
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Over-fitting and peeking at the test set are completely different things. Over-fitting may in fact degrade performance on a test set, because it means you are giving too much weight to idiosyncratic patterns in the training data. Peeking at the test data, however, is right out, and should invalidate any results you try to report.