double descent

noun — 2 senses

double descent

noun
1

The presence of both patrilineal and matrilineal descent groups in a society.

2

Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics The phenomenon where a model with few parameters and a model with many parameters have a small test error, but a model whose number of parameters is about the same as the number of data points used to train the model will have a large error.

Machine learning

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