Spurious pattern
An accident in the data that looks like a real rule.
Learn it through a story
- The Topper Who Only Memorised (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 3)
Short on time? Read the 5-minute version.
Related terms
- Regression Predicting a number, rather than choosing a category.
- Reinforcement learning Learning by trial and error, getting rewards for good actions.
- Slope, or gradient Which way, and how steeply, the error changes when a weight changes.
- Supervised learning Learning from examples that come with answers.
- Tampering Secretly changing a system so it gives the answers you want.
- Test data Examples kept hidden, used only to check the model at the end.