overlearn
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overlearn (third-person singular simple present overlearns, present participle overlearning, simple past and past participle overlearned or overlearnt)
- To learn (something) more than is necessary; to study excessively, to take (something) too much to heart.
- 2010 October 14, “An own goal on gay rights”, in The Economist:
- 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.
- (psychology, education) 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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learn more than necessary
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