regularization

/ˌrɛɡjələrəˈzeɪʃən/
noun
  1. The process of making something normal, standard, or officially accepted.
    • Many immigrants hope for the regularization of their legal status.
    • The regularization of the company's hiring process made it fairer for everyone.
    • The regularization of the spelling system helped students learn more easily.
  2. In mathematics or computing, a technique used to prevent overfitting or to make a model simpler and more general.
    • The data scientist applied regularization to improve the accuracy of the model.
    • Regularization helps avoid errors when the algorithm learns from too much noise.
    • In machine learning, L2 regularization is a common method to reduce complexity.
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