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Glossary: ML Beyond the Basics

Early stopping

Also written: early_stopping, early_stopping_rounds

Stopping training once a held-out score hasn't improved for a set number of rounds, keeping the best round. It chooses the number of trees for you and needs a held-out set separate from the one you judge with.

Where the book teaches it

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Callbackn_estimatorsLog lossHeld-out set