The goal is to allow for "fair" comparisons. But I agree with you in general. I suspect even LFW's creators might; I don't know if they expected the benchmark

The goal is to allow for "fair" comparisons. But I agree with you in general. I suspect even LFW's creators might; I don't know if they expected the benchmark to still be tested on this many years after creation. I've always felt that all benchmarks in vision should come with expiration dates, because eventually everyone starts implicitly overfitting to them.