overlearn

present singular third person overlearns · participle present overlearning · participle past overlearned · past overlearned · participle past overlearnt · past overlearnt · alternative over-learn

1. 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.

   2010 October 14, “An own goal on gay rights”, in The Economist

2. educationTo learn (something) to the point where responses become instinctive.
3. modelingMostly 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.