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title: "What is overfitting and underfitting in machine learning?"  
description: "What is overfitting and underfitting in machine learning?"  
author: "Anubhav Sharma"  
published: 2026-05-27  
updated: 2026-05-28  
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category: "artificial-intelligence"  
tags: ["artificial intelligence"]  

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# What is overfitting and underfitting in machine learning?


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