double descent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The presence of both patrilineal and matrilineal descent groups in a society.
  2. 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.

Word forms

double descent
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