English Explanatory Dictionary

overfit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To use a statistical model that has too many parameters relative to the size of the sample, leading to a good fit with the sample data but a poor fit with new data.

Word forms

overfit overfits overfitting overfitted

Etymology

From over- + fit.

Antonyms

underfit

Related words

overfit stream
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