overlearn

English

/əʊvəˈləːn/

verb
Definitions
  • To learn (something) more than is necessary; to study excessively, to take (something) too much to heart.
  • (psychology) To learn (something) to the point where responses become instinctive.
  • (modeling) 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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Prefix from English learn.

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learn

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