diff --git a/docs/api-reference/regularization-l1-l2.md b/docs/api-reference/regularization-l1-l2.md index 758d060a32..3f6bda200c 100644 --- a/docs/api-reference/regularization-l1-l2.md +++ b/docs/api-reference/regularization-l1-l2.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -This class uses [empricial risk minimization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_risk_minimization) (i.e., ERM) +This class uses [empirical risk minimization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_risk_minimization) (i.e., ERM) to formulate the optimization problem built upon collected data. -Note that empricial risk is usually measured by applying a loss function on the model's predictions on collected data points. +Note that empirical risk is usually measured by applying a loss function on the model's predictions on collected data points. If the training data does not contain enough data points (for example, to train a linear model in $n$-dimensional space, we need at least $n$ data points), [overfitting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting) may happen so that