Outlier
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
Values distant from most other values. In machine learning, any of the following are outliers: • Weights with high absolute values • Predicted values relatively far away from the actual values • Input data whose values are more than roughly 3 standard deviations from the mean Outliers often cause problems in model training. Clipping is one way of managing outliers
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- Values distant from most other values. In machine learning, any of the following are outliers: • Weights with high absolute values • Predicted values relatively far away from the actual values • Input data whose values are more than roughly 3 standard deviations from the mean Outliers often cause problems in model training. Clipping is one way of managing outliers
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- An outlier is a data value that lies in the tail of the statistical distribution of a set of data values.
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- An outlier is a data point that is far from other points.
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- an extreme deviation from the mean
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- a person who lives away from his place of work