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3 claims from 1 paper

  1. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Dropout: a simple way to prevent neural networks from overfitting

    Srivastava, Hinton, Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Salakhutdinov · 2014

    The paper presents dropout, which randomly drops units during training, and reports that it improves neural networks on vision, speech, text classification and computational biology tasks.

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    1. UncheckedUsing dropout at test time via a single network with smaller weights is said to cut overfitting a lot and beat other regularization methods.“This significantly reduces overfitting and gives major improvements over other regularization methods.”
    2. UncheckedRandomly dropping units from a neural network during training is said to stop those units from co-adapting too much.“This prevents units from co-adapting too much.”
    3. UncheckedAt test time, one full network with smaller weights can approximate averaging the predictions of the many thinned networks sampled during dropout training.“At test time, it is easy to approximate the effect of averaging the predictions of all these thinned networks by simply using a single unthinned network that has smaller weights.”

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