What is Regularization: Bias-Variance Tradeoff

Good practice to improve the prediction with unseen data

Aaron Zhu
Towards Data Science
7 min readJun 20, 2022

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When we talk about prediction using machine learning models, it’s important to understand prediction errors (i.e., bias and variance). The goal of any machine learning model is to find a model that minimizes the prediction errors on unseen data. There’s a tradeoff of a model’s ability to…

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