regularization

English

From regular +‎ -ization.

regularization (countable and uncountable, plural regularizations)

The act of making regular, of regularizing.
- 1881, S. Janicki, A. Pasqueau, L. Jacquet, translated by William Emery Merrill, Improvement of Non-tidal Rivers: Memoirs‎^[1], Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 17:
  The history of the regularization of rivers, both in Russia and in Western Europe, hardly shows us anything but failures.
(mathematics, computer science, finance) a process that simplifies results, often used to obtain results for ill-posed problems or to prevent overfitting.
- 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^[2], volume 12, number 4, →DOI:
  A large regularization parameter may over-smoothen the solution, while a small regularization parameter may lose the ability to stabilize the solution.

the act of regularizing