Practice - Overfitting vs Underfitting
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Practice Questions
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Define overfitting.
💡 Hint: Think of how a student might memorize answers without understanding the material.
What happens during underfitting?
💡 Hint: Consider a model that predicts all outputs as the average value.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is overfitting?
💡 Hint: Consider how the model performs on new data.
Is underfitting a result of a model being too complex?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens if a model lacks complexity.
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Challenge Problems
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You are given a dataset where a model shows 90% accuracy on training data but only 70% on test data. What is this likely an indication of?
💡 Hint: Compare the performance on training versus test sets.
Design a scenario where a model is underfitting. What signs would you look for in terms of accuracy metrics?
💡 Hint: Low performance across both types of data is a key sign.
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