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Response to Overfitting the Development Set

Question: According to Andrew Ng, if a machine learning team realizes that their dev set and metric are no longer pointing them in the right direction because they have overfit the dev set, what specific action should they take to resolve this issue?

Sample answer: If the team has overfit the dev set, they should quickly change the dev set by getting more dev set data.

Key points:

  • Identify overfitting to the dev set as the reason the dev set/metric is no longer guiding the team.
  • Resolve the issue by getting more dev set data.

Rubric: The answer must specify that the team should get more dev set data to resolve the overfitting issue.

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Updated 2026-05-26

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