overlearn

  1. Verb.  To learn (something) more than is necessary; to study excessively, to take (something) too much to heart.
  2. Verb.  (context, psychology) To learn (something) to the point where responses become instinctive.
  3. Verb.  (context, 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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