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to generalize

to generalize

1 5.6
To use what a computer learned from examples on new data
  • verb
  • /ˈdʒɛnəraˌlaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : generalizar
  • Coaching, another technique used to strengthen and generalize program effects, entails one-on-one interactions with students to promote skill acquisition.
  • generalize the model
  • generalize to natural settings
  • designed to generalize

Well, so the first question is, you know, how could this generalize beyond the motor domain, I think.

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Examples

  • To improve accuracy, we need to teach the system how to generalize beyond the specific examples from the training set.

  • So this is completely magic, but does it generalize and does it work?

  • We can, we can generalize over a whole, a whole a whole range of physical things.

  • Like those skills generalize, they transfer across domains.

  • Well, so the first question is, you know, how could this generalize beyond the motor domain, I think.

    Stanford

  • An appropriate early foundation helps an individual transfer and generalize skills and adapt to the demands of specific situations.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Do not expect that the empathy that they show in the session will generalize to home.

  • In many ways, the features identified in their model generalize to enhancing core math instruction for students with or at risk for MD.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Repetition supports student retention and the ability to utilize and generalize newly learned materials well.

    Academic text (2012)

  • In summary, regularization is an important technique for helping machine-learning algorithms to generalize well.

    Academic text (2017)

Antonyms

to overfit
  • Specialized
8.4

Make a model memorize the training data so it does not work well on new data

How Well

to generalize
  • Specialized
1 5.6
transfer
  • Specialized
6 3.9
to fit
969 1.0
to overfit
  • Specialized
8.4

Surface Forms

generalize infinitive
generalized past
generalised past
generalizing present participle
generalising present participle
generalises third person singular

Morphology

generalize = general (semi-transparent) = general + ize

The ML/AI sense 'apply learned patterns to new data' is etymologically 'make general', but it is a technical, discipline-specific use that may not be obvious to general learners.

Etymology

Generalize comes from the Latin root genus meaning 'kind' or 'type', like the familiar word general. In AI and machine learning, to generalize is to learn patterns that work for many kinds of new examples, not just the ones used for training.