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Choosing a remedy
Regularization and generalization
For overfitting: try L1/L2, dropout, suitable data augmentation, a smaller model, more representative training data and early stopping. For underfitting: improve features or architecture, train adequately, check optimization, or reduce excessive regularization. Evaluate changes on validation data.
Data augmentation makes label-preserving variations of training examples, such as suitable crops or brightness changes in images. It must respect the task: flipping a digit or a medical image may change meaning. Augmentation happens within the training split; do not leak augmented copies into validation.
| Change | Usual bias tendency | Usual variance tendency |
|---|---|---|
| Stronger weight regularization | Increase | Decrease |
| More hidden units with other factors fixed | Decrease | Increase |
| Dropout | Increase | Decrease |
| More representative data from same distribution | Roughly unchanged model bias | Decrease |
These are classical tendencies for exam discussion, not exact laws for every deep-network training run. Distinguish model capacity from optimization failure.