What is catastrophic overparameterization in deep learning?

Updated May 17, 2026

Short answer

Overparameterization occurs when models have far more parameters than training samples.

Deep explanation

Surprisingly, large networks generalize well due to implicit regularization of SGD, despite ability to perfectly fit training data.

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