Talk:Regularization (mathematics)

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Regularization has two articles termed "regularization (mathematics)" and "regularization (machine learning)".

There is not very much difference between the two concepts. Presently "mathematics" has a small description on inverse problems, while the "machine learning" is towards a "statistical" description. I propose that the article should be called "regularization (mathematics)". "machine learning" is a narrow field. Other names or possible redirects would be

— fnielsen (talk) 13:08, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the merge. While there may be arguments for separate pages at some point in the future, at the moment they are both little beyond stubs, and have a large degree of overlap. As for the name, "regularization (mathematics)" is probably sufficient for now, but the names you suggest sound good should they be split again in future. - 3mta3 (talk) 14:49, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What happened? The second sections of both articles (with the table) are almost identical. Reg(ML) should be made a section of Reg(math). --88.73.36.251 (talk) 11:22, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]