regularization
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regularization (countable and uncountable, plural regularizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- The act of making regular, of regularizing.
- 1881, S. Janicki, A. Pasqueau, L. Jacquet, translated by William Emery Merrill, Improvement of Non-tidal Rivers: Memoirs[1], Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 17:
- The history of the regularization of rivers, both in Russia and in Western Europe, hardly shows us anything but failures.
- (mathematics, computer science, finance) a process that simplifies results, often used to obtain results for ill-posed problems or to prevent overfitting.
- 2020 March 30, Ratinan Boonklurb, Ampol Duangpan, Phansphitcha Gugaew, “Numerical Solution of Direct and Inverse Problems for Time-Dependent Volterra Integro-Differential Equation Using Finite Integration Method with Shifted Chebyshev Polynomials”, in Symmetry[2], volume 12, number 4, , archived from the original on 6 October 2026:
- A large regularization parameter may over-smoothen the solution, while a small regularization parameter may lose the ability to stabilize the solution.
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the act of regularizing
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