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The Fourth Quadrant: A Stylized View of Benign Misfitting

Why fitting can get in the way: exact geometry, the training-versus-test frontier, and useful one-pass SGD.

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arXiv:2608.01032 · PDF

Citation
@misc{ranade2026fourthquadrant,
  title={The Fourth Quadrant: A Stylized View of Benign Misfitting},
  author={Ranade, Gireeja and Sahai, Anant},
  year={2026},
  eprint={2608.01032},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.LG},
  doi={10.48550/arXiv.2608.01032}
}

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