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Optimization for deep networks is currently a very active area of research. As neural networks become deeper, the ability in manually optimizing the network becomes harder. Mini-batch normalization, identification of effective respective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 M. U. B. Dias , D. D. N. De Silva , S. Fernando

Dropout is an effective strategy for the regularization of deep neural networks. Applying tabu to the units that have been dropped in the recent epoch and retaining them for training ensures diversification in dropout. In this paper, we…

Dropout is known as an effective way to reduce overfitting via preventing co-adaptations of units. In this paper, we theoretically prove that the co-adaptation problem still exists after using dropout due to the correlations among the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Shen Li , Chenhao Su , Renfen Hu , Zhengdong Lu

Neural networks are commonly trained in highly overparameterized regimes, yet empirical evidence consistently shows that many parameters become redundant during learning. Most existing pruning approaches impose sparsity through explicit…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zubair Shah , Noaman Khan

Among the most successful methods for sparsifying deep (neural) networks are those that adaptively mask the network weights throughout training. By examining this masking, or dropout, in the linear case, we uncover a duality between such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Daniel LeJeune , Hamid Javadi , Richard G. Baraniuk

Originally, dropout was seen as a breakthrough regularization technique that reduced overfitting and improved performance in almost all applications of deep learning by reducing overfitting. Yet, single-epoch pretraining tasks common to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Houjun Liu , John Bauer , Christopher D. Manning

Training deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) presents unique challenges, including the pervasive issue of elimination singularities, consistent deactivation of nodes leading to degenerate manifolds within the loss landscape. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Chengkun Sun , Jinqian Pan , Zhuoli Jin , Russell Stevens Terry , Jiang Bian , Jie Xu

Marginalising out uncertain quantities within the internal representations or parameters of neural networks is of central importance for a wide range of learning techniques, such as empirical, variational or full Bayesian methods. We set…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-21 Justin Bayer , Maximilian Karl , Daniela Korhammer , Patrick van der Smagt

This paper proposes a new method to improve the training efficiency of deep convolutional neural networks. During training, the method evaluates scores to measure how much each layer's parameters change and whether the layer will continue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Giorgio Cruciata , Luca Cruciata , Liliana Lo Presti , Jan Van Gemert , Marco La Cascia

Dropout is a very effective method in preventing overfitting and has become the go-to regularizer for multi-layer neural networks in recent years. Hierarchical mixture of experts is a hierarchically gated model that defines a soft decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Ozan İrsoy , Ethem Alpaydın

Dropout is a simple yet effective algorithm for regularizing neural networks by randomly dropping out units through Bernoulli multiplicative noise, and for some restricted problem classes, such as linear or logistic regression, several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Jacopo Cavazza , Connor Lane , Benjamin D. Haeffele , Vittorio Murino , René Vidal

Convolutional networks are ubiquitous in deep learning. They are particularly useful for images, as they reduce the number of parameters, reduce training time, and increase accuracy. However, as a model of the brain they are seriously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Roman Pogodin , Yash Mehta , Timothy P. Lillicrap , Peter E. Latham

In deep multi-task learning, weights of task-specific networks are shared between tasks to improve performance on each single one. Since the question, which weights to share between layers, is difficult to answer, human-designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Jonas Prellberg , Oliver Kramer

Deep neural networks often consist of a great number of trainable parameters for extracting powerful features from given datasets. On one hand, massive trainable parameters significantly enhance the performance of these deep networks. On…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Yixing Xu , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu

With the growing attention on learning-to-learn new tasks using only a few examples, meta-learning has been widely used in numerous problems such as few-shot classification, reinforcement learning, and domain generalization. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Hung-Yu Tseng , Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Sifei Liu , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The performance of a classifier depends on the tuning of its parame ters. In this paper, we have experimented the impact of various tuning parameters on the performance of a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN). In the ex perimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Mahe Zabin , Ho-Jin Choi , Md. Monirul Islam , Jia Uddin

Deep neural networks have become the default choice for many of the machine learning tasks such as classification and regression. Dropout, a method commonly used to improve the convergence of deep neural networks, generates an ensemble of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-11 Tal Kachman , Michal Moshkovitz , Michal Rosen-Zvi

This paper aims to understand and improve the utility of the dropout operation from the perspective of game-theoretic interactions. We prove that dropout can suppress the strength of interactions between input variables of deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Hao Zhang , Sen Li , Yinchao Ma , Mingjie Li , Yichen Xie , Quanshi Zhang

Deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) based supervised learning is a widely practiced approach for large-scale image classification. However, retraining these large networks to accommodate new, previously unseen data demands high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Syed Shakib Sarwar , Aayush Ankit , Kaushik Roy

Dropout is a widely-used regularization technique, often required to obtain state-of-the-art for a number of architectures. This work demonstrates that dropout introduces two distinct but entangled regularization effects: an explicit effect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Colin Wei , Sham Kakade , Tengyu Ma