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19 Sept 2025 Machine Learning Street Talk Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different - Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (NYU)

“Whereas in fact, as we build bigger models, we often actually start to alleviate overfitting. And double descent is just a great example of this because that first ascent is is from overfitting the data.”

— Andrew Gordon Wilson

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Andrew Gordon Wilson
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19 Sept 2025
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Machine Learning Street Talk

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…Or to enforce of simplicity. Exactly. Yeah. Whereas in fact, as we build bigger models, we often actually start to alleviate overfitting. And double descent is just a great example of this because that first ascent is is from overfitting the data. But then it gets alleviated as we start to make our models bigger and bigger. By some phenomenon that we still don't really fully understand. Like this this this ability of simplicity to start to come back into the picture as you just make it even bigger.…

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