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Dropout introduced in paper: Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting (Srivastava et al., 2014).
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- Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting (Srivastava et al., 2014)
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- dropout · regularization · foundational · 2014 · jmlr · hinton
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[1] peer reviewed · JMLR (Srivastava, Hinton, Krizhevsky, Sutskever, Salakhutdinov) · 2014-06-01
Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting“We propose dropout, a technique for addressing this problem. The key idea is to randomly drop units (along with their connections) from the neural network during training. This prevents units from co-adapting too much.”
[2] peer reviewed · Journal of Machine Learning Research · 2014-06-01
Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting (JMLR v15)
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