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It employs real-time feedback to optimize the model\u2019s weight adjustments, enhancing prediction accuracy and overall model performance. Importantly, FBVL preserves the integrity of the validation process by using prediction outcomes on the validation dataset to guide training adjustments, without directly accessing the dataset. Our empirical study conducted using the Iris dataset demonstrated the effectiveness of FBVL. The Iris dataset, comprising 150 samples from three species of Iris flowers, each characterized by four features, served as an ideal testbed for demonstrating FBVL\u2019s effectiveness. The implementation of FBVL led to substantial performance improvements, surpassing the accuracy of the previous best result by approximately 7.14% and achieving a loss reduction greater than the previous methods by approximately 49.18%. When FBVL was applied to the Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset (MELD), it showcased its wide applicability across various datasets and domains. The model achieved a test-set accuracy of 70.08%, surpassing the previous best-reported accuracy by approximately 3.12%. These remarkable results underscore FBVL\u2019s ability to optimize performance on established datasets and its capacity to minimize loss. Using our FBVL method, we achieved a test set f1_score micro of 70.07%, which is higher than the previous best-reported value for f1_score micro of 67.59%. 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