overfitting
Speech parts
1. overfitting - Noun
2. overfitting - Verb
Meaning
overfitting
present participle of overfit
overfitting (plural overfittings)
(statistics) The action of the verb overfit.
Synonyms
Examples
Bagging helps reduce the variance error and avoid model overfitting.
Learning from a productive data set, and where overfitting is sufficiently avoided or mitigated, a learning algorithm can recognize patterns and generalize to cases not yet encountered.
"Nevertheless, the relatively small sample size and inclusion of interaction terms in the model may have resulted in some optimism and overfitting, despite shrinkage of the regression coefficients," they admitted.
Li, in her first teaching job at UIUC, had been grappling with one of the core tensions in machine learning: overfitting and generalization.
Does the evaluation loss indicate overfitting?
Note again that, in general, because you don’t have a ton of data, the worse overfitting can and will be.