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Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors
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Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors released on arXiv — proposed dropout
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Curbed overfitting with simple regularization and later became a standard technique
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0580Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
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