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This provides more reliable performance estimates, reduces overfitting to a particular split, and maximizes data usage - especially valuable with limited datasets.","intuition":"Imagine you\'re a teacher evaluating students\' true understanding. Instead of one big test, you give multiple smaller tests with different questions each time. Each student gets tested on all topics eventually, and you average their scores for a fair assessment. Similarly, cross-validation tests your model on different data subsets multiple times, ensuring the performance estimate isn\'t lucky or unlucky based on a single split. 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