{"id":5646369,"date":"2021-06-01T16:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T20:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lightning.ai\/pages\/?p=5646369"},"modified":"2022-07-28T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T20:25:44","slug":"avoid-overfitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightning.ai\/pages\/community\/tutorial\/avoid-overfitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid Overfitting in Machine Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lightning EarlyStopping Callback<\/h2>\n<p>Using the <code>EarlyStopping<\/code> callback, Lightning will automatically stop training once a specific metric has stopped improving. This helps you avoid overfitting.<\/p>\n<p>The default behavior is that EarlyStopping will happen once there hasn&#8217;t been an improvement in 3 evaluations. You can change this using the <code>patience<\/code> value.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vfB5Ax6ekHo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning EarlyStopping Callback Using the EarlyStopping callback, Lightning will automatically stop training once a specific metric has stopped improving. This helps you avoid overfitting. The default behavior is that EarlyStopping will happen once there hasn&#8217;t been an improvement in 3 evaluations. You can change this using the patience value. 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