From d85cf11fc6bab6328394c96c90a8d9cd81e358db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sayan Goswami Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 14:01:26 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Add early stopping. --- glossary.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/glossary.md b/glossary.md index 07ad93e..f021a2e 100644 --- a/glossary.md +++ b/glossary.md @@ -572,6 +572,13 @@ A method of solving complex problems by breaking them down to sub-problems that # E ## early stopping + +In statistical mahine learning, **early stopping** is a regularization +technique used to stop overfitting the training data sequence in iterative +methods of learning. Early stopping checks if improving the fit of the learner +to the data sequence is at the expense of increase in generalization error and +stops the learning once this happens. + ## economy ## effect ## effective branching factor