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🧠 To forget habits 💻 To erase data
to unlearn

to unlearn

8.1
To remove specific information used to teach a computer model so the model forgets it
  • verb
  • /ʌnˈlɜrn/
  • Specialized
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  • The system was designed to unlearn incorrect responses from previous training sessions.

If you are unlearning patterns, you're unnerving it, right?

Examples

  • After retraining, the machine learning model had to unlearn biases from its prior datasets.

  • If you are unlearning patterns, you're unnerving it, right?

    Mel Robbins

  • If you are unlearning patterns, you're unnerving it, right?

    Mel Robbins

  • In the latest update, the software can now unlearn outdated data that no longer applies.

Synonyms

to unteach
vsto unlearn
  • Specialized
9.5

Make a computer program forget specific things it learned

describes removing learned influence generally without specifying retraining steps
to unsee
vsto unlearn
  • Specialized
9.1

To remove information from a set of data so it no longer changes future results

focuses on deleting or excluding data rather than erasing internal model traces
to untrain
vsto unlearn
6.5

Make a person or animal stop a learned habit

describes deliberate removal of model training influence rather than natural skill loss

Antonyms

to retain
47 3.2

To keep facts or information in your memory

How Retained

to retain
47 3.2
to unlearn
  • Specialized
8.1
to erase
144 1.6

Surface Forms

unlearn infinitive
unlearned past
unlearned past participle
unlearning present participle
unlearns third person singular

Morphology

unlearn = learn (semi-transparent) = un + learn

Morphologically clear as 'un-' + 'learn', but the specialized technical sense (removing learned content from a model) requires domain knowledge and is not immediately obvious to general learners.

Etymology

The word unlearn is made from un- ('not' or 'reverse') and learn. In computing, to unlearn is to 'remove' or 'erase' knowledge from a computer model so it no longer uses or repeats that information.