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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-regularization.wav [US] Forms: regularizations [plural], regularisation [alternative]
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  1. The act of making regular, of regularizing. Tags: British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable Translations (the act of regularizing): 正則化 /正则化 (zhèngzéhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), регулярлау (regulärlau) (Kazakh), regularização [feminine] (Portuguese)
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  2. (mathematics, computer science, finance) a process that simplifies results, often used to obtain results for ill-posed problems or to prevent overfitting. Tags: British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable
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Derived forms: Hadamard regularization, overregularization, Tikhonov regularization

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