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Intro to Regularization with Python

Improve machine learning performance with regularization.

  • Skill level

    Intermediate
  • Time to complete

    Approx. 2 hours
  • Prerequisites

    1 course

About this course

Machine learning models need to perform well not only on their training data, but also on new data. In this course, you will learn how to use regularization to improve performance on new data. You will learn the most common techniques for regularization, how they work, and how to apply them.

Skills you'll gain

  • Minimize overfitting

  • Apply ridge and lasso regularization

  • Understand the bias-variance tradeoff

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