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Treating the Best Achievable Error as a Bias Floor
When the best possible model for a task would still make a noticeable number of mistakes, that minimum error level should be viewed as unavoidable error rather than something a stronger learner can completely remove. For example, if an ideal handwritten-digit recognizer would still fail on 5% of cases because some images are ambiguous or unreadable, that 5% is the task's irreducible error floor and should be counted as part of the unavoidable bias.
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