overfitting

== English == === Verb === overfitting present participle and gerund of overfit === Noun === overfitting (countable and uncountable, plural overfittings) (statistics, machine learning) The production of a statistical model that, due to an excess of parameters relative to the sample size, fits the sample data extremely well but fails to fit new data. ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== Understanding Overfitting and How to Prevent It === References === Oxford Dictionary: Overfitting