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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Machine Learning and Data Classification

   Techniques for mitigating overfitting in machine learning: a comprehensive review, taxonomy, and practical guide

   Sheppert · Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence · 2026

   A narrative review of about 95 studies organises overfitting-reduction methods into five families and offers a decision framework to help practitioners choose suitable techniques.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper concludes that reducing overfitting works best when choices about data, model size, training and testing are made together.“Overfitting mitigation benefits from coordinated choices in data, model capacity, optimization, and evaluation.”

2. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Regularity Priors for the Linear Atomic Cluster Expansion

   Darby, Morrow, Bartók, Deringer, Cśanyi and Ortner · Apollo (University of Cambridge) · 2026

   The authors build prior beliefs about smoothness of the energy into linear Atomic Cluster Expansion models, mainly replicating SOAP's Gaussian broadening, and test how far this improves fitted potentials.

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   1. UncheckedNumerical tests suggest a regularity prior in linear ACE models improves accuracy and stability, whatever its exact form.“Numerical tests indicate that the exact form of the prior is non-critical but that including such a prior leads to significant improvement in test errors, consistent repulsion at close-approach, eliminates spurious false minima in the potential energy and enhances stability during molecular dynamic…”