What is penalty in machine learning?

Question

Could someone tell me what is penalty in machine learning?

Answer 1

To give a penalty in machine learning it means, to give weight or penalty for deviating from an objective.

This is in prevalence to provide a generalized machine learning model that is more accurate and to reduce the overfitting of the model.

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