overcoming

Definition

A title verb announcing that the paper attacks a named, previously documented obstacle — most famously "Overcoming catastrophic forgetting." It primes the reader to expect a baseline that visibly fails and a method that visibly does not. Read it as mitigation under stated conditions rather than elimination; the honest questions are how much of the obstacle survives, and what the fix costs in compute, memory, or accuracy elsewhere.

Explainers using this term

• Continual Learning and Catastrophic Forgetting — Why Models Can't Just Keep LearningOvercoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks