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Regularization to Reduce Overfitting

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You are training a supervised learning model and notice that training performance is much better than validation performance. You want the model to generalize better to unseen data.

Question

How would you regularize a model to reduce overfitting?

What This Tests

  • Recognizing overfitting from train versus validation behavior
  • Choosing appropriate regularization methods for different model families
  • Using cross-validation to tune regularization strength
  • Explaining the bias-variance tradeoff clearly