probabilistic-interpretation-led-to-dropout

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The probabilistic interpretation of neural networks (treating activation nonlinearities as cumulative distribution functions) led to the introduction of dropout as a regularization technique

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• IN dropout-ensemble-interpretation — Dropout is implicitly an ensemble method within a single network — randomly omitting hidden units during training samples from an exponential family of sub-networks, connecting the probabilistic interpretation of neural networks to the variance-reducing properties of ensembles.