Label Smoothing as Another Regularization Trick

What is label smoothing and how to implement it in PyTorch

Dimitris Poulopoulos
Towards Data Science
4 min readOct 29, 2021

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Overfitting and probability calibration are two issues that arise when training deep learning models. There are a lot of regularization techniques in deep learning to address overfitting; weight decay, early stopping, and dropout are some of the most popular ones. On the other hand…

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