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Mechanism

Regularization

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any penalty that keeps a model simple so it stops memorising

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell islearn × L4. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

Occam's razorRegularizationnothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

Before it: Occam's razor

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

11Why Memorizing Failsact 2 · The Instruments

Where it comes from

bookDeep LearningIan Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville · 2016
bookPattern Recognition and Machine LearningChristopher M. Bishop · 2006

Every connection

All 2 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

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