Empirical Risk Minimization

In this article, we will explore Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) technique used in machine learning.

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What is risk?

Before we get into empirical risk minimization, let us first get an understanding of what is risk.

In supervised learning, we use the dataset that is representative of all the classes for a given problem, to solve the problem. Let us consider an example of supervised learning problem - cancer diagnosis. Each input has ...