Course
Intro to Regularization with Python
Improve machine learning performance with regularization.
Skill level
IntermediateTime to complete
Approx. 2 hoursPrerequisites
1 courseWe suggest you complete the following courses before you get started with Intro to Regularization with Python:- Machine Learning: Logistic Regression
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
Syllabus
Intro to Regularization
Learn about regularization and how to implement it in Python.
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