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This paper discusses overfitting in machine learning, highlighting its causes, detection techniques, and prevention strategies. Overfitting occurs when a model learns noise rather than the underlying data pattern, resulting in poor performance on unseen data. Solutions include regularization, early stopping, and using simpler models to achieve a balance between bias and variance.

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This paper discusses overfitting in machine learning, highlighting its causes, detection techniques, and prevention strategies. Overfitting occurs when a model learns noise rather than the underlying data pattern, resulting in poor performance on unseen data. Solutions include regularization, early stopping, and using simpler models to achieve a balance between bias and variance.

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Understanding Overfitting in Machine Learning Models

Title: Understanding Overfitting in Machine Learning Models

Abstract:

Overfitting is one of the most common challenges in supervised learning. This paper explains the

phenomenon of overfitting, how to detect it, and strategies to prevent it using cross-validation, regularization,

and pruning techniques.

1. Introduction

Overfitting occurs when a machine learning model captures noise instead of signal in the data. The model

performs well on the training data but poorly on new, unseen data.

2. Causes of Overfitting

- High model complexity

- Small training datasets

- Too many training epochs

3. Detection Techniques

- Use of validation set

- K-fold cross-validation

- Learning curves

4. Solutions

- L1/L2 regularization

- Early stopping

- Simpler models

5. Conclusion

A balanced model minimizes both bias and variance. Overfitting remains a key consideration in model

evaluation.

References:

- Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning, 2016.


Understanding Overfitting in Machine Learning Models
- Géron, Hands-On ML with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow, 2022.

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