A practitioner reports their model has 99% accuracy on the training set but only 60% on the held-out test set. Which phenomenon best explains this gap?
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A practitioner reports their model has 99% accuracy on the training set but only 60% on the held-out test set. Which phenomenon best explains this gap?
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