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MLS-C01 Modeling Practice Question
A data scientist is building a text classification model using a bag-of-words approach. The dataset contains 100,000 documents with a vocabulary of 50,000 unique words. The model is overfitting. Which THREE techniques can help reduce overfitting? (Choose THREE.)
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Apply L1 or L2 regularization
Regularization (L1/L2), reducing n-gram range to unigrams, and feature selection (removing rare words) all reduce model complexity and help prevent overfitting. Option A (increasing max_features) increases complexity and can worsen overfitting. Option E (TF-IDF) is a weighting scheme, not a regularization technique.
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Increase max_features to include more words
Why it's wrong here
Adding more features increases model complexity and overfitting risk.
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Apply L1 or L2 regularization
Why this is correct
Regularization penalizes large coefficients, reducing overfitting.
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Reduce the n-gram range to unigrams only
Why this is correct
Lower n-gram range reduces feature space and overfitting.
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Use feature selection to remove rare words
Why this is correct
Removing rare words reduces noise and overfitting.
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Use TF-IDF instead of raw counts
Why it's wrong here
TF-IDF is a feature scaling method, not a regularization technique.
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Last reviewed: Jun 20, 2026
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