##  [Empirical Risk Minimization](/empirical-risk-minimization) 

  ##  [Empirical Risk Minimization](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/empirical-risk-minimization-0) 

  

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Definition

A supervised learning principle that selects a predictive model from a hypothesis class by minimizing the average loss computed over a finite training sample.