--- title: "Utilizing target permutation to prevent overfitting." url: https://daily.dev/posts/utilizing-target-permutation-to-prevent-overfitting--60nw7ihy8 source_url: https://medium.com/@uriitai/utilizing-target-permutation-to-prevent-overfitting-44a141bf70e0 type: article source: "Medium" published: 2024-01-09T12:11:36.858Z updated: 2024-01-09T12:11:35.863Z tags: ["ai", "data-science", "machine-learning", "feature-engineering", "overfitting"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Utilizing target permutation to prevent overfitting. **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The author describes a method to assess whether the results of a model are random or statistically significant by permuting the target vector in the training set and evaluating the results on the original target in the test set. The results showed that the non-permuted target vector outperformed most randomly permuted vectors, but there were instances where the model trained better with a randomly permuted vector. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#data-science](https://daily.dev/tags/data-science), [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#feature-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/feature-engineering), [#overfitting](https://daily.dev/tags/overfitting) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/utilizing-target-permutation-to-prevent-overfitting--60nw7ihy8)