regularization

noun regularizations · regularisation

1. British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable The 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.
2. British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable a 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.