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What is the double descent phenomenon, and how does it complicate the bias-variance story?

Classic bias-variance says bigger models eventually overfit, yet deep nets keep improving past the point where they memorize the data. The signal is explaining the second descent and why over-parameterized models generalize. Here is the answer.

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Classic bias-variance says bigger models eventually overfit, yet deep nets keep improving past the point where they memorize the data. The signal is explaining the second descent and why over-parameterized models generalize. Here is the answer.

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