Overlearn
/əʊvəˈləːn/ verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To learn (something) more than is necessary; to study excessively, to take (something) too much to heart.
"Why the rigmarole of a military survey before enacting a measure most Americans already favoured? Maybe he over-learned the lesson of the clobbering Bill Clinton got when he barged into this area right at the start of his presidency."
- 2 To learn (something) to the point where responses become instinctive.
- 3 Mostly when talking about neural networks, to learn a task to the point where responses actually start to degrade. Compare with overfit, in model tuning contexts.
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More examples"Why the rigmarole of a military survey before enacting a measure most Americans already favoured? Maybe he over-learned the lesson of the clobbering Bill Clinton got when he barged into this area right at the start of his presidency."
Etymology
From over- + learn.