Learning Curves: A Picture Says More Than a Thousand Words

A valuable tool to understand ML models

We want our ML models to learn and generalize well to unseen data. A model that does not learn or generalize to unseen data is useless.

Hence, we need to identify if the model is learning and generalizing well before we can do anything about it. But how do we tell?

Imagine a teacher who wants to know how well students learn a new topic. He measures the mistakes over time using a …

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