regularization
/ˌreɡjʊləraɪˈzeɪʃən/
Techniques to prevent overfitting by penalizing complexity
regularization in a sentence
“Regularization prevented the model from memorizing training data.”
Origin of regularization
From Latin regula (rule, straight piece of wood) + -ization suffix
Related Words
normalization
Scaling data to a standard range
imputation
Filling in missing data values
outlier detection
Identifying data points that differ significantly from others
clustering
Grouping similar data points together
classification
Predicting which category a data point belongs to
regression
Predicting a continuous numerical value