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by yorwba 3154 days ago
No, when you want to classify a new sample, you take a model trained on the complete labeled data you have and use the prediction of that. The validation procedure using those 34 models trained on subsets of the data is just to tell you how accurate you should expect the result to be. Afterwards, you can throw those models away.

Of course you could build an ensemble model, but if you want to know the expected accuracy of doing that, you need to include the ensemble-building into your validation procedure. (Or use some theorem that lets you estimate the ensemble performance from that of individual models, if that is possible.)