AI Glossary

Dropout

What does “Dropout” mean?

Dropout: A training technique that randomly disables some activations to discourage reliance on particular units.

Dropout visual guide: A training technique that randomly disables some activations to discourage reliance on particular units.
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What is an example of “Dropout”?

During training, a network sees a different subset of hidden activations on each pass.