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🚫 To punish 📉 To add penalty
to penalize

to penalize

3 6.5
Add a cost to a model to discourage it becoming too complex
  • verb
  • /ˈpɛnəˌlaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : penalizar
  • In order to improve model accuracy, we need to penalize excessive complexity in the parameters.
  • penalized spline
  • penalized likelihood

Where and what particular mismatches would you want to penalize more and less?

Examples

  • So essentially we'll try to to penalize non smoothness.

  • We penalize not walking on preferred terrain features by adding extra distance.

    Academic text (2016)

  • CPK now penalizes deviations from the mean.

  • According to Google, this update aimed at penalizing scraper or duplicate content sites.

    Blog text (22)

  • In building the street map, we give preference to terrain features like ridgelines by designing a distance measure that penalizes not walking along the terrain feature.

    Academic text (2016)

  • Multiple-choice and fill-in responses are preferred; exposition and creativity are penalized.

    Academic text (1990)

  • We fit a penalized spline and chose the optimum penalty using generalized cross-validation.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The algorithm will penalize overfitting by incorporating a regularization term in the loss function.

  • To prevent bias, we often penalize solutions that deviate significantly from the expected values.

Synonyms

to regularize
vsto penalize
  • Specialized
7.5

To make a model simpler so it learns general patterns, not noise

adds a penalty term directly to the loss to discourage complex parameter values

Antonyms

to reward
328 1.3

To give something to someone to thank them for doing something good

How Strong

to punish
821 1.0
to penalize
  • Specialized
3 6.5
to regularize
  • Specialized
7.5

Surface Forms

penalize infinitive
penalized past
penalized past participle
penalizing present participle
penalizes third person singular

Morphology

penalize = penal (transparent) = penal + ize

The technical sense (adding a penalty term) is a domain-specific application but is still directly based on the notion of imposing a penalty, so the morphological derivation remains clear.

Etymology

Penalize comes from the Latin word poena meaning 'punishment', the same root as penalty. In maths and machine learning, to penalize a model means to add a 'penalty' or extra cost to stop it from getting too complex, which is like giving the model a small 'punishment' for complexity.