Model Tuning Intuition

Learn how tuning machine learning models is one of the primary ways to avoid overfitting.

Combatting overfitting

As a machine learning practitioner, there are two explicit goals when choosing how to train machine learning models:

  • Optimizing the value of the model’s predictions (e.g., attaining high accuracy).

  • Ensuring the value of the model’s predictions remains high over time.

There are many options for training machine learning models. Examples later in the course include dividing data into training and test datasets and ...