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Overfitting
AI Glossary Term
What does “
Overfitting
” mean?
Definition
When a model memorizes training data and performs poorly on unseen inputs.
Related terms
Generalization
How well a model performs on new, unseen data outside the training set.
Benchmark Leakage
When benchmark test examples or close variants are present in training data, inflating reported performance.
Continual Learning
Training approaches that let a model keep learning from new data without forgetting prior knowledge.
Data Augmentation
Techniques that create modified training examples to improve model generalization.
Fine-Tuning
Continuing training on domain-specific data to adapt a pre-trained model to a specific task.
Knowledge Cutoff
The latest point in time reflected in a model's training data.
Learn more in our free guides
Overfitting and Underfitting
See also
Open-Source Model
Parameter
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT)
Normalization
Perplexity
Neural Network
Pipeline
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