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Early stopping

What does “Early stopping” mean?

Early stopping: Ending training when a validation metric stops improving.

Early stopping visual guide: Ending training when a validation metric stops improving.
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What is an example of “Early stopping”?

A trainer keeps the checkpoint with the lowest validation loss after later runs get worse.

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