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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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