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Uf

Underfit

Severity4/10

Underfitting

Model with insufficient capacity or inadequate training that fails to capture underlying patterns in the data, resulting in poor performance.

Periodic recordReliabilityarXiv2026

Shuqi Liu, Yuzhou Cao, Lei Feng, Bo An, Luke Ong

Mitigation Strategy

Increase model complexity (more parameters, deep layers), increase training duration, and improve feature quality.

Atomic Number

58

Uf

Risk ID

ce-58

Severity

4/10

Severity Level

58
Reliability
ce-58
Uf

Underfit

Underfitting

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Reliability • #58

Underfitting

Uf
Severity Level4/10

Definition

Model with insufficient capacity or inadequate training that fails to capture underlying patterns in the data, resulting in poor performance.

Mitigation Strategy

Increase model complexity (more parameters, deep layers), increase training duration, and improve feature quality.

Reference Paper

When More Experts Hurt: Underfitting in Multi-Expert Learning to Defer

Authors: Shuqi Liu, Yuzhou Cao, Lei Feng, Bo An, Luke Ong

Source: arXiv · arXiv:2602.17144 · 2026

Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17144v1

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