Learning Rate

Ridge Regression

A regularised regression technique that adds an L2 penalty term to prevent overfitting by constraining coefficient magnitudes.

Elastic Net

A regularisation technique combining L1 and L2 penalties, balancing feature selection and coefficient shrinkage.

Cross-Validation

A resampling technique that partitions data into subsets, training on some and validating on others to assess model generalisation.

Overfitting

When a model learns the training data too well, including noise, resulting in poor performance on unseen data.

Underfitting

When a model is too simple to capture the underlying patterns in the data, resulting in poor performance on both training and test data.

Bias-Variance Tradeoff

The balance between a model's ability to minimise bias (error from assumptions) and variance (sensitivity to training data fluctuations).

Regularisation

Techniques that add constraints or penalties to a model to prevent overfitting and improve generalisation to new data.

Gradient Descent

An optimisation algorithm that iteratively adjusts parameters in the direction of steepest descent of the loss function.

Stochastic Gradient Descent

A variant of gradient descent that updates parameters using a randomly selected subset of training data each iteration.

Adam Optimiser

An adaptive learning rate optimisation algorithm combining momentum and RMSProp for efficient deep learning training.

Loss Function

A mathematical function that measures the difference between predicted outputs and actual target values during model training.

Backpropagation

The algorithm for computing gradients of the loss function with respect to network weights, enabling neural network training.

A probabilistic classifier based on applying Bayes' theorem with the assumption of independence between features.

The tendency of neural networks to completely lose previously learned knowledge when trained on new tasks, a fundamental challenge in continual and multi-task learning.

An optimised distributed gradient boosting library designed for speed and performance in machine learning competitions and production.

A supervised learning algorithm that finds the optimal hyperplane to separate different classes in high-dimensional space.

A subset of the training data used to compute a gradient update during stochastic gradient descent.

A learning approach that combines a small amount of labelled data with a large amount of unlabelled data during training.

The process of converting a trained model into a format that can be stored, transferred, and later reconstructed for inference.

A training strategy that presents examples to a model in a meaningful order, typically from easy to hard.