regularization

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noun

The act of making regular, of regularizing.

Less commonScrabble 24

Meanings

nounregularization (countable and uncountable, plural regularizations)

plural regularizations · alternative regularisation

  1. BritishEnglishOxfordUScountableuncountableThe act of making regular, of regularizing.

    The history of the regularization of rivers, both in Russia and in Western Europe, hardly shows us anything but failures.

    1881, S. Janicki, A. Pasqueau, L. Jacquet, translated by William Emery Merrill, Improvement of Non-tidal Rivers: Memoirs, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 17
  2. BritishEnglishOxfordUScountableuncountablebusinessa process that simplifies results, often used to obtain results for ill-posed problems or to prevent overfitting.

    A large regularization parameter may over-smoothen the solution, while a small regularization parameter may lose the ability to stabilize the solution.

    2020 March 30, Ratinan Boonklurb, Ampol Duangpan, Phansphitcha Gugaew, “Numerical Solution of Direct and Inverse Problems for Time-Dependent Volterra Integro-Differential Equation Using Finite Integration Method with Shifted Chebyshev Polynomials”, in Symmetry, volume 12, number 4, →DOI

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe condition of having been made regular (or more regular)

nounthe act of bringing to uniformity; making regular

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Origin

Translations

Catalan regularització
  • regularitzacióthe act of regularizing
Chinese Mandarin 正則化 /正则化
  • 正則化 /正则化 (zhèngzéhuà)the act of regularizing
Czech regularizace
  • regularizacethe act of regularizing
Danish regularisering
  • regulariseringthe act of regularizing
Dutch regularisering, regularisatie
  • regulariseringthe act of regularizing
  • regularisatiethe act of regularizing
Finnish säännöllistäminen
  • säännöllistäminenthe act of regularizing
French régularisation
  • régularisationthe act of regularizing
German Regularisierung
  • Regularisierungthe act of regularizing
Italian regolarizzazione
  • regolarizzazionethe act of regularizing
Norwegian regularisering
  • regulariseringthe act of regularizing
Polish regularyzacja
  • regularyzacjathe act of regularizing
Portuguese regularização
  • regularizaçãothe act of regularizing
Russian регуляриза́ция
  • регуляриза́ция (reguljarizácija)the act of regularizing
Slovak regularizácia
  • regularizáciathe act of regularizing
Spanish regularización
  • regularizaciónthe act of regularizing
Swedish regularisering
  • regulariseringthe act of regularizing
Ukrainian регуляризація
  • регуляризація (rehuljaryzacija)the act of regularizing
Welsh rheoleiddiad
  • rheoleiddiadthe act of regularizing
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APA

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Chicago

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