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Overfitting and Generalization

The concepts of overfitting, where a model performs well on training data but poorly on test data, and generalization, where a model performs well on both training and test data, including the importance of balancing model flexibility and accuracy

intermediate
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Machine Learning
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Overfitting and generalization are critical concepts in machine learning that determine how well a model performs on new data. Overfitting occurs when a model learns the training data too well, including noise, which leads to poor performance on unseen data. Generalization, on the other hand, is the...

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Key Terms

Overfitting
A modeling error that occurs when a model learns the training data too well.

Example: A model that predicts training data perfectly but fails on new data.

Generalization
The ability of a model to perform well on unseen data.

Example: A model that accurately predicts outcomes for new data points.

Training Data
The dataset used to train a model.

Example: A collection of images used to teach a model to recognize objects.

Validation Data
A separate dataset used to evaluate the model during training.

Example: Data set aside to tune model parameters.

Regularization
A technique used to prevent overfitting by adding a penalty to the loss function.

Example: L1 and L2 regularization methods.

Cross-Validation
A technique for assessing how the results of a statistical analysis will generalize.

Example: K-fold cross-validation.

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Key Concepts

OverfittingGeneralizationTraining DataValidation Data