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6 claims from 3 papers

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.”

2. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors

   Hinton, Srivastava, Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Salakhutdinov · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2012

   Randomly omitting half the feature detectors on each training case reduces overfitting in large neural networks trained on small datasets, and the paper reports improved benchmark results.

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   1. UncheckedRandomly omitting units during training, called dropout, gave big gains on many benchmarks and set new records in speech and object recognition.“Random "dropout" gives big improvements on many benchmark tasks and sets new records for speech and object recognition.”

3. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Ensemble Methods for Neural Network‐Based Weather Forecasts

   Scher and Messori · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2020

   The authors turned a deterministic neural network weather forecaster into an ensemble system using four methods, and compared the results with the single forecast and with numerical weather prediction models.

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   1. UncheckedIn this study, ensemble-mean forecasts from four methods all beat the single unperturbed neural network forecast, and retraining improved most.“The ensemble mean forecasts obtained from these four approaches all beat the unperturbed neural network forecasts, with the retraining method yielding the highest improvement.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper states that its neural network weather forecasts are systematically less skilful than those of state-of-the-art numerical weather prediction models.“However, the skill of the neural network forecasts is systematically lower than that of state-of-the-art numerical weather prediction models.”