The Million-Dollar Question: When to Stop Training your Deep Learning Model

On early stopping, or how to avoid overfitting or underfitting by knowing how long to train your neural network for

Angel Igareta
Towards Data Science
5 min readJun 22, 2021

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One of the first decisions to be made when training deep neural networks is to select the epoch in which to stop. And it is not an easy one.

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