What does "regularization" mean?

The act of making regular, of regularizing.

Regularization

Common synonyms include: adjustment, balancing, coordination, evening, harmonization, integration.

noun

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Noun

1
The act of making regular, of regularizing. British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable
"The history of the regularization of rivers, both in Russia and in Western Europe, hardly shows us anything but failures."
2
the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular wordnet
3
a process that simplifies results, often used to obtain results for ill-posed problems or to prevent overfitting. British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable
"A large regularization parameter may over-smoothen the solution, while a small regularization parameter may lose the ability to stabilize the solution."
4
the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) wordnet