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Overfitting in Supervised Learning

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Problem

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You're training supervised learning models and notice that training performance keeps improving while validation performance stalls or drops.

Question

How do you approach the problem of overfitting in machine learning?

What This Tests

  • Diagnosing overfitting from train versus validation behavior
  • Using regularization to control model complexity
  • Choosing cross-validation schemes correctly
  • Tuning hyperparameters without leaking test information