Benign overfitting in the large deviation regime

We investigate the benign overfitting phenomenon in the large deviation regime where the bounds on the prediction risk hold with probability $1-e^{-\zeta n}$, for some absolute constant $\zeta$. We prove that these bounds can converge to $0$ for the quadratic loss. We obtain this result by a new analysis of the interpolating estimator with minimal Euclidean norm, relying on a preliminary localization of this estimator with respect to the Euclidean norm. This new analysis complements and strengthens particular cases obtained in previous works for the square loss and is extended to other loss functions. To illustrate this, we also provide excess risk bounds for the Huber and absolute losses, two widely spread losses in robust statistics.