Early Stopping: Why Did Your Machine Learning Model Stop Training?

Why most models are small and LLMs are large

Harrison Hoffman
Towards Data Science
15 min readMay 11, 2024

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When training supervised machine learning models, early stopping is a commonly used technique to mitigate overfitting. Early stopping involves monitoring a model’s performance on a validation set during training and stopping the training process once the model’s performance…

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