Comment by 9dev

Comment by 9dev a day ago

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And… that is called overfitting. If you show the model values for y, but they are 2 in 99% of all cases, it’s likely going to yield 2 when asked about the value of y, even if the prompt didn’t specify or forbid 2 specifically.

IanCal a day ago

> If you show the model values for y, but they are 2 in 99% of all cases, it’s likely going to yield 2 when asked about the value of y

That's not overfitting. That's either just correct or underfitting (if we say it's never returning anything but 2)!

Overfitting is where the model matches the training data too closely and has inferred a complex relationship using too many variables where there is really just noise.

FeepingCreature a day ago

I would argue this is just fitting.

  • fluidcruft 17 hours ago

    If you take the perspective of all the possible responses to the request, then it is overfit because it only returns a non-generalized response.

    But if you look at it from the perspective that there is only one example to learn, from it is maybe not over it.