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Dropout introduced in paper: Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting (Srivastava et al., 2014).

Last verified 2026-05-16 · Methodology veritas-v0.1 · 18409e7f8a6d7aac

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Dropout
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introduced_in_paper
Object
Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting (Srivastava et al., 2014)
Confidence
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Tags
dropout · regularization · foundational · 2014 · jmlr · hinton

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  1. [1] peer reviewed · JMLR (Srivastava, Hinton, Krizhevsky, Sutskever, Salakhutdinov) · 2014-06-01

    Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting
    We propose dropout, a technique for addressing this problem. The key idea is to randomly drop units (along with their connections) from the neural network during training. This prevents units from co-adapting too much.
  2. [2] peer reviewed · Journal of Machine Learning Research · 2014-06-01

    Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting (JMLR v15)

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