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Double descent is the principle of least action

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-16 in cs.AI. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-09-16 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-17

Category: cs.AI · 人工智能 · first seen 2026-09-17

Abstract

The test error of a model plotted against its number of parameters $d$ falls, peaks when the model can just fit the training data, and falls again, exhibiting the double descent phenomenon. We explain the phenomenon with statistical mechanics. The training trajectory of a stochastic gradient-based method is a particle wandering over the energy landscape of the training loss at an induced temperatu

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