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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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OVERRIDE Metric→Data. 'An outlier is a data point that is far from'.

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