Question

What is generalization?

(a) ability to store a pattern

(b) ability to recall a pattern

(c) ability to learn a mapping function

(d) none of the mentioned

The question was asked during an interview.

Origin of the question is Pattern Association in section Feedforward Neural Networks of Neural Networks

Answer 1

Right choice is (c) ability to learn a mapping function

Explanation: Generalization is the ability to learn a mapping function.