What is underfitting and how detect it?

Underfitting is when your model learns too little.
Andrew Ng

How It Works:

Underfitting occurs when a model is too simple to capture data patterns, indicated by both training and validation performance being low.

Key Benefits of Avoidance:

  • Ensures models learn meaningful relationships
  • Delivers acceptable baseline performance
  • Provides a starting point before fine-tuning

Real-World Use Cases:

  • Linear regression on nonlinear trends
  • Small networks on complex image tasks

FAQs

How fix underfitting?
Can more data help?