English Explanatory Dictionary

overlearn

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To learn (something) more than is necessary; to study excessively, to take (something) too much to heart.
  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.

Pronunciation

/əʊvəˈləːn/

Word forms

overlearn overlearns overlearning overlearned overlearnt over-learn

Etymology

From over- + learn.

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