Glossary term
Glossary term
Safety and Alignment
Choosing the function that minimizes loss on the training set. Contrast with structural risk minimization.
Created for this library
A risk modeling team frames its training as empirical risk minimization on a chosen surrogate loss to get a tractable optimization problem.
An ML platform team teaches its new engineers ERM as the conceptual basis for supervised training to anchor advanced topics later.
A research team contrasts ERM with distributionally robust alternatives when training a model expected to face shifts in the input distribution.
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