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Deep learning is the state-of-the-art in fields such as visual object recognition and speech recognition. This learning uses a large number of layers, huge number of units, and connections. Therefore, overfitting is a serious problem. To…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are known to rely more on local texture rather than global shape when making decisions. Recent work also indicates a close relationship between CNN's texture-bias and its robustness against distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Baifeng Shi , Dinghuai Zhang , Qi Dai , Zhanxing Zhu , Yadong Mu , Jingdong Wang

Dropout is a well-known regularization method by sampling a sub-network from a larger deep neural network and training different sub-networks on different subsets of the data. Inspired by the dropout concept, we propose EDropout as an…

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Bayesian Neural Networks (BNN) have recently emerged in the Deep Learning world for dealing with uncertainty estimation in classification tasks, and are used in many application domains such as astrophysics, autonomous driving...BNN assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Claire Theobald , Frédéric Pennerath , Brieuc Conan-Guez , Miguel Couceiro , Amedeo Napoli

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

The dominant text classification studies focus on training classifiers using textual instances only or introducing external knowledge (e.g., hand-craft features and domain expert knowledge). In contrast, some corpus-level statistical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Xianming Li , Zongxi Li , Yingbin Zhao , Haoran Xie , Qing Li

Dropout is a regularisation technique in neural network training where unit activations are randomly set to zero with a given probability \emph{independently}. In this work, we propose a generalisation of dropout and other multiplicative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-24 Beyrem Khalfaoui , Joseph Boyd , Jean-Philippe Vert

Blind Super-Resolution (blind SR) aims to enhance the model's generalization ability with unknown degradation, yet it still encounters severe overfitting issues. Some previous methods inspired by dropout, which enhances generalization by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hang Xu , Wei Yu , Jiangtong Tan , Zhen Zou , Feng Zhao

Dropout is a crucial regularization technique for the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) models of Natural Language Inference (NLI). However, dropout has not been evaluated for the effectiveness at different layers and dropout rates in NLI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Amit Gajbhiye , Sardar Jaf , Noura Al Moubayed , A. Stephen McGough , Steven Bradley

Dropout is typically interpreted as bagging a large number of models sharing parameters. We show that using dropout in a network can also be interpreted as a kind of data augmentation in the input space without domain knowledge. We present…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-11 Xavier Bouthillier , Kishore Konda , Pascal Vincent , Roland Memisevic

Dropout methods are a family of stochastic techniques used in neural network training or inference that have generated significant research interest and are widely used in practice. They have been successfully applied in neural network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Alex Labach , Hojjat Salehinejad , Shahrokh Valaee

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for graph representation learning. Despite their rapid development, GNNs also face some challenges, such as over-fitting, over-smoothing, and non-robustness. Previous works indicate that these…

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While training on samples drawn from independent and identical distribution has been a de facto paradigm for optimizing image classification networks, humans learn new concepts in an easy-to-hard manner and on the selected examples…

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In this work, we investigate the existence and effect of percolation in training deep Neural Networks (NNs) with dropout. Dropout methods are regularisation techniques for training NNs, first introduced by G. Hinton et al. (2012). These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Finley Devlin , Jaron Sanders

Overfitting frequently occurs in deep learning. In this paper, we propose a novel regularization method called Drop-Activation to reduce overfitting and improve generalization. The key idea is to drop nonlinear activation functions by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Senwei Liang , Yuehaw Khoo , Haizhao Yang

Deep Neural Networks often require good regularizers to generalize well. Dropout is one such regularizer that is widely used among Deep Learning practitioners. Recent work has shown that Dropout can also be viewed as performing Approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Suraj Srinivas , R. Venkatesh Babu

Recent years have witnessed the success of deep neural networks in dealing with a plenty of practical problems. Dropout has played an essential role in many successful deep neural networks, by inducing regularization in the model training.…

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Deep learning is a machine learning methodology using multi-layer neural network. A multi-layer neural network can be regarded as a chain of complete bipartite graphs. The nodes of the first partita is the input layer and the last is the…

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Dropout has long been a staple of supervised learning, but is rarely used in reinforcement learning. We analyze why naive application of dropout is problematic for policy-gradient learning algorithms and introduce consistent dropout, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Matthew Hausknecht , Nolan Wagener

Assisted by the availability of data and high performance computing, deep learning techniques have achieved breakthroughs and surpassed human performance empirically in difficult tasks, including object recognition, speech recognition, and…

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