Moderate Regularization Question 137 of 223

How is early stopping a form of regularization?

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Stopping before the optimizer fully minimizes train loss limits effective capacity.

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Stopping before the optimizer
fully minimizes train loss limits effective capacity.
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The model never reaches
the most interpolating set of weights.
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You choose the stop
point with a validation set, which is why that set is no longer a pure test.
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Common mistake
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Stopping before the optimizer fully minimizes train loss limits effective capacity. The model never reaches the most interpolating set of weights.