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double descent

double descent noun: the presence of both patrilineal and matrilineal descent groups in a society.

Noun

double descent (uncountable)

  1. The presence of both patrilineal and matrilineal descent groups in a society.
  2. (machine learning) 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.

Questions about double descent

What does double descent mean?
Double descent means the presence of both patrilineal and matrilineal descent groups in a society.
What part of speech is double descent?
Double descent is a noun.

Words near double descent in the dictionary

  1. double definition
  2. double degree
  3. double degrees
  4. double denim
  5. double depression
  6. double descent
  7. double desk
  8. double dig
  9. double digging
  10. double digits
  11. double digs

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