[cosmic_ape]

Do you mean the boosting graphs in Fig. 1, 4 of that paper?

It looks though that they have a double descent on the train set too, so it might not be the same phenomenon.

Nevertheless, good to know, thanks for sharing! I knew both papers but never thought giving much attention to such details of the figures of the 1998 one. Is the connection between the papers well known, i.e. something people talk about?

[disgruntledphd2]

I wasn't aware of it. I think it's mentioned in the 2016 paper that popularised the term, and I saw the date and went to read it.

Yeah, I do mean those graphs, it seems to be the same phenomenon at least.