Two models of double descent for weak features

03/18/2019
by   Mikhail Belkin, et al.
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The "double descent" risk curve was recently proposed to qualitatively describe the out-of-sample prediction accuracy of variably-parameterized machine learning models. This article provides a precise mathematical analysis for the shape of this curve in two simple data models with the least squares/least norm predictor. Specifically, it is shown that the risk peaks when the number of features p is close to the sample size n, but also that the risk decreases towards its minimum as p increases beyond n. This behavior is contrasted with that of "prescient" models that select features in an a priori optimal order.

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