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# Early Stopping in Deep Networks: Double Descent and How to Eliminate it

@article{Heckel2021EarlySI,
title={Early Stopping in Deep Networks: Double Descent and How to Eliminate it},
author={Reinhard Heckel and Fatih Yilmaz},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2021},
volume={abs/2007.10099}
}
• Published 2021
• Computer Science, Mathematics
• ArXiv
Over-parameterized models, such as large deep networks, often exhibit a double descent phenomenon, whereas a function of model size, error first decreases, increases, and decreases at last. This intriguing double descent behavior also occurs as a function of training epochs and has been conjectured to arise because training epochs control the model complexity. In this paper, we show that such epoch-wise double descent arises for a different reason: It is caused by a superposition of two or more… Expand
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