double descent
Americannoun
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Anthropology. a kinship system in which descent through both father and mother are relevant in determining status with regard to different social practices, such as clan membership, inheritance rights, or other customs.
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Computers. in machine learning, a phenomenon in which test error decreases, then increases, and decreases again as the parameters of a model become more numerous in relation to the quantity of data.
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He recognises the double descent and twofold parentage, and the later wanderings that had deceived him among ancient lands.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
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