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overlearn

verb
/əʊvəˈləːn/UK

Etymology

From over- + learn.

  1. inherited from *lizaną✻
  2. inherited from *liʀnōn✻
  3. inherited from leornian — “to learn", rarely also, "to teach”
  4. inherited from lernen — “to learn", also, "to teach"”
  5. prefixed as overlearn — “over + learn”

Definitions

  1. To learn (something) more than is necessary

    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…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overlearn. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA