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Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting

University of Toronto·June 15, 2014

Nitish Srivastava, Geoffrey Hinton, Alex Krizhevsky

TL;DR

Introduces dropout, randomly disabling units during training to reduce overfitting.

Why it matters

A simple, ubiquitous regularizer that became standard practice across deep learning.

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