Overfitting
Overfitting
Definition
Tuning a strategy's parameters so closely to historical data that it captures noise instead of a real pattern.
Other definitions
- When a model learns noise specific to the training data instead of a generalizable pattern, performing well in-sample but poorly out-of-sample.
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