Difference between revisions of "10-601 Bias-Variance"

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*Bishop: Chap 1, 2
 
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* Littman/Isbell [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQWI1kvmwRg on overfitting]
  
 
=== What you should know ===
 
=== What you should know ===

Revision as of 18:06, 19 October 2014

Slides

Readings

What you should know

  • How overfitting/underfitting can be understood as a tradeoff between high-bias and high-variance learners.
  • Mathematically, how to decompose error for linear regression into bias and variance.
  • Intuitively, how classification can be decomposed into bias and variance.
  • Which sorts of classifier variants lead to more bias and/or more variance: e.g., large vs small k in k-NN, etc.