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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

Deep learning using multi-layer neural networks (NNs) architecture manifests superb power in modern machine learning systems. The trained Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are typically large. The question we would like to address is whether it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Wei Pan , Hao Dong , Yike Guo

Dropout is a widely used regularization technique in deep learning, but its effects are typically realized through stochastic masking rather than explicit optimization objectives. We propose a deterministic formulation that expresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Vidhi Agrawal , Illia Oleksiienko , Alexandros Iosifidis

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.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Guoliang Kang , Jun Li , Dacheng Tao

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…

In this work, we introduce Y-Drop, a regularization method that biases the dropout algorithm towards dropping more important neurons with higher probability. The backbone of our approach is neuron conductance, an interpretable measure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Efthymios Georgiou , Georgios Paraskevopoulos , Alexandros Potamianos

Dropout is a widely used regularization trick to resolve the overfitting issue in large feedforward neural networks trained on a small dataset, which performs poorly on the held-out test subset. Although the effectiveness of this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Suman Adhya , Avishek Lahiri , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

The big breakthrough on the ImageNet challenge in 2012 was partially due to the `dropout' technique used to avoid overfitting. Here, we introduce a new approach called `Spectral Dropout' to improve the generalization ability of deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

This paper presents a novel approach to recurrent neural network (RNN) regularization. Differently from the widely adopted dropout method, which is applied to \textit{forward} connections of feed-forward architectures or RNNs, we propose to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Stanislau Semeniuta , Aliaksei Severyn , Erhardt Barth

Multi-layer neural networks have lead to remarkable performance on many kinds of benchmark tasks in text, speech and image processing. Nonlinear parameter estimation in hierarchical models is known to be subject to overfitting and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Noah Frazier-Logue , Stephen José Hanson

Dropout is a popular technique for regularizing artificial neural networks. Dropout networks are generally trained by minibatch gradient descent with a dropout mask turning off some of the units---a different pattern of dropout is applied…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Ben Graham , Jeremy Reizenstein , Leigh Robinson

The Resilient Propagation (Rprop) algorithm has been very popular for backpropagation training of multilayer feed-forward neural networks in various applications. The standard Rprop however encounters difficulties in the context of deep…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Alan Mosca , George D. Magoulas

Dropout as a common regularizer to prevent overfitting in deep neural networks has been less effective in convolutional layers than in fully connected layers. This is because Dropout drops features randomly, without considering local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Liyan Chen , Philippos Mordohai , Sergul Aydore

It is important to understand how dropout, a popular regularization method, aids in achieving a good generalization solution during neural network training. In this work, we present a theoretical derivation of an implicit regularization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhongwang Zhang , Zhi-Qin John Xu

To boost the performance, deep neural networks require deeper or wider network structures that involve massive computational and memory costs. To alleviate this issue, the self-knowledge distillation method regularizes the model by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Hyoje Lee , Yeachan Park , Hyun Seo , Myungjoo Kang

Successful application processing sequential data, such as text and speech, requires an improved generalization performance of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Dropout techniques for RNNs were introduced to respond to these demands, but we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Sungrae Park , Kyungwoo Song , Mingi Ji , Wonsung Lee , Il-Chul Moon

Different techniques have emerged in the deep learning scenario, such as Convolutional Neural Networks, Deep Belief Networks, and Long Short-Term Memory Networks, to cite a few. In lockstep, regularization methods, which aim to prevent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Claudio Filipi Goncalves do Santos , Danilo Colombo , Mateus Roder , João Paulo Papa

We introduceDropDim, a structured dropout method designed for regularizing the self-attention mechanism, which is a key component of the transformer. In contrast to the general dropout method, which randomly drops neurons, DropDim drops…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Hao Zhang , Dan Qu , Keji Shao , Xukui Yang

The pretraining-fine-tuning paradigm has been the de facto strategy for transfer learning in modern language modeling. With the understanding that task adaptation in LMs is often a function of parameters shared across tasks, we argue that a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mandar Sharma , Nikhil Muralidhar , Shengzhe Xu , Raquib Bin Yousuf , Naren Ramakrishnan

Deep neural networks possess strong representational capacity yet remain vulnerable to overfitting, primarily because neurons tend to co-adapt in ways that, while capturing complex and fine-grained feature interactions, also reinforce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Gelesh G Omathil , Sreeja CS