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Overfitting
Overfitting occurs when a model learns the training data too well, including noise and random patterns, causing poor performance on new unseen data.
Regularization
Regularization adds constraints or penalties to model training to prevent overfitting, encouraging simpler models that generalize better to new data.
Accuracy
Accuracy measures the proportion of correct predictions out of total predictions, the simplest classification evaluation metric.
Precision
Precision measures the proportion of positive predictions that are actually correct, answering: of all items predicted as positive, how many truly are?
Recall
Recall measures the proportion of actual positive cases that the model correctly identifies, answering: of all true positives, how many did the model find?
F1 Score
The F1 score is the harmonic mean of precision and recall, providing a single balanced measure of classification performance on positive cases.
AUC-ROC
AUC-ROC measures the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, evaluating classification performance across all possible decision thresholds.
Confusion Matrix
A confusion matrix is a table showing counts of true positives, false positives, true negatives, and false negatives for evaluating classification models.
R-Squared
R-squared measures the proportion of variance in the target variable that is explained by the model, indicating how well the model fits the data.
Data Annotation
Data annotation is the process of adding labels, tags, or metadata to raw data to create training datasets for supervised machine learning systems.
Stratified Sampling
Stratified sampling ensures that each subset of data maintains the same class distribution as the full dataset, preventing biased train-test splits.
Underfitting
Underfitting occurs when a model is too simple to capture the underlying patterns in the data, resulting in poor performance on both training and test data.
Early Stopping
Early stopping halts model training when validation performance stops improving, preventing overfitting by selecting the model at its best generalization point.
AutoML
AutoML automates the end-to-end machine learning pipeline — from data preprocessing and feature engineering to model selection, hyperparameter tuning, and deployment.
Bayesian Optimization
Bayesian optimization efficiently finds the maximum or minimum of expensive black-box functions by building a probabilistic surrogate model and intelligently selecting evaluation points.
Grid Search
Grid search exhaustively evaluates every combination of specified hyperparameter values to find the configuration with the best performance.
Random Search
Random search samples hyperparameter configurations randomly from specified distributions, outperforming grid search by efficiently exploring high-dimensional spaces.
Learning Rate Scheduling
Learning rate scheduling dynamically adjusts the learning rate during training to improve convergence, prevent overshooting, and achieve better final model performance.
Differential Privacy in ML
Differential privacy in ML adds carefully calibrated noise to training to provide mathematical guarantees that individual training examples cannot be identified from the model.
Model Interpretability
Model interpretability is the degree to which humans can understand how a model makes predictions, essential for trust, debugging, and regulatory compliance.
Partial Dependence Plots
Partial dependence plots visualize the marginal effect of one or two features on model predictions, averaging out the influence of all other features.
Model Calibration
Model calibration ensures that a model's predicted probabilities accurately reflect the true likelihood of outcomes — a model that says 70% should be right about 70% of the time.
Ensemble Methods
Ensemble methods combine predictions from multiple machine learning models to achieve better performance than any single model, reducing variance, bias, or both.
Distribution Shift
Distribution shift occurs when the data distribution during deployment differs from the training distribution, leading to unexpected model behavior and degraded performance.
Label Noise
Label noise refers to incorrect or inconsistent labels in training data that can degrade model performance and introduce biases.
Neural Network
A neural network is a computing system inspired by biological brains, composed of interconnected nodes organized in layers that learn patterns from data.
Artificial Neuron
An artificial neuron is the basic computational unit in a neural network that receives inputs, applies weights and a bias, and produces an output through an activation function.
Perceptron
A perceptron is the simplest type of artificial neural network, consisting of a single neuron that performs binary classification by computing a weighted sum of inputs.
Multi-Layer Perceptron
A multi-layer perceptron (MLP) is a feedforward neural network with one or more hidden layers between input and output, capable of learning non-linear patterns.
Feedforward Neural Network
A feedforward neural network is a network where information flows in one direction from input to output, with no cycles or feedback loops between layers.
Deep Neural Network
A deep neural network is a neural network with multiple hidden layers, enabling it to learn hierarchical representations of complex data.
Weight
A weight is a learnable numerical parameter in a neural network that determines the strength of the connection between two neurons.
Bias
A bias is a learnable parameter in a neural network neuron that is added to the weighted sum of inputs before the activation function, allowing the neuron to shift its output.
Activation
Activation is the output value of a neuron after applying its activation function to the weighted sum of inputs, representing how strongly the neuron fires.
Layer
A layer is a group of neurons at the same depth in a neural network that process inputs together and pass their outputs to the next layer.
Input Layer
The input layer is the first layer of a neural network that receives raw data and passes it to the hidden layers for processing.
Hidden Layer
A hidden layer is any layer between the input and output layers of a neural network where learned transformations are applied to extract features from data.
Output Layer
The output layer is the final layer of a neural network that produces the prediction or result, such as class probabilities or a generated value.
Parameter
A parameter is a learnable value in a neural network, including weights and biases, that is optimized during training to minimize the loss function.
Connection
A connection in a neural network is a weighted link between two neurons that transmits the output of one neuron as input to another.
Activation Function
An activation function is a mathematical function applied to a neuron output that introduces non-linearity, enabling neural networks to learn complex patterns.
ReLU
ReLU (Rectified Linear Unit) is an activation function that outputs the input directly if positive and zero otherwise, widely used for its simplicity and training efficiency.
Leaky ReLU
Leaky ReLU is a variant of ReLU that allows a small, non-zero gradient for negative inputs, preventing the dying ReLU problem.
GELU
GELU (Gaussian Error Linear Unit) is a smooth activation function that weights inputs by their probability under a Gaussian distribution, widely used in transformers.
Sigmoid
Sigmoid is an activation function that maps any input to a value between 0 and 1, historically used in neural networks and still standard for binary classification outputs.
Tanh
Tanh (hyperbolic tangent) is an activation function that maps inputs to values between -1 and 1, providing zero-centered outputs for neural networks.
Softmax
Softmax is an activation function that converts a vector of raw scores into a probability distribution, where all values sum to 1.
Swish
Swish is a smooth, self-gated activation function defined as f(x) = x * sigmoid(x), offering improved performance over ReLU in some deep networks.
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