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6 Mar 2025

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Deep Learning · Dropout

Dropout randomly zeroes activations during training as a regulariser; inverted scaling, train vs eval behaviour, and its effect on an overfitting MLP.

  • Dropout zeroes each activation with probability p during training and scales the rest by 1/(1−p).
  • At evaluation time dropout is switched off, which is another reason model.eval() matters.

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