Overfitting in ML: Understanding and Avoiding the Pitfalls

Exploring the Causes and Solutions for Overfitting in Machine Learning Models

Rian Dolphin
Towards Data Science
6 min readDec 12, 2022

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Overfitting in machine learning is a common problem that occurs when a model is trained so much on the training dataset that it learns specific details about the training data that don’t generalise well, and cause poor performance on…

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