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regularization

noun

Etymology

From regular + -ization.

  1. derived from *h₃reǵ-✻ — “move in a straight line”
  2. derived from rēgulāris — “continuing rules for guidance”
  3. derived from reguler
  4. derived from reguler
  5. inherited from reguler
  6. suffixed as regularization — “regular + ization”

Definitions

  1. The act of making regular, of regularizing.

    • The history of the regularization of rivers, both in Russia and in Western Europe, hardly shows us anything but failures.

  2. a process that simplifies results, often used to obtain results for ill-posed problems or…

    a process that simplifies results, often used to obtain results for ill-posed problems or to prevent overfitting.

    • A large regularization parameter may over-smoothen the solution, while a small regularization parameter may lose the ability to stabilize the solution.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for regularization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA