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Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting

At a glance

Dropout reduces memorization by switching off parts of a neural network during training.

In one paragraph

Introduced dropout, randomly switching off parts of a neural network during training to reduce memorization and help it perform better on examples it has not seen.

Authors 5

  1. Nitish Srivastava
  2. Geoffrey Hinton
  3. Alex Krizhevsky
  4. Ilya Sutskever
  5. Ruslan Salakhutdinov