Generalizing

/ˈdʒɛn(ə)rəˌlaɪzɪŋ/ verb (present participle)

Definition

The act of making a broad statement or conclusion that applies to many cases; the process of drawing general principles from specific examples.

Etymology

From generalize plus -ing suffix. American spelling variant of generalising.

Kelly Says

Machine learning models are literally 'generalizing' when they learn from training data—they're finding patterns and rules that hopefully apply to new, unseen data, which is exactly what your brain does when learning anything new!

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