Problem: Overfitting, Solution: Regularization

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Towards Data Science
7 min readMar 25, 2020

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What makes a model overfitting and how we can solve this issue

We all have those friends who tell stories in excruciating detail. When you ask them about a movie they saw recently, you may end up learning not only about the movie but also the watch of the guy selling popcorn at movie theater. On the other hand, we have uncommunicative friends who would just tell you that the movie was “good” or “bad”.

Overfitting and underfitting are similar to those different types of friends in terms of the amount of detail. An overfit…

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