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Poster
Fri Jul 13 09:15 AM -- 12:00 PM (PDT) @ Hall B #69
On the Implicit Bias of Dropout
Poorya Mianjy · Raman Arora · Rene Vidal
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Algorithmic approaches endow deep learning systems with implicit bias that helps them generalize even in over-parametrized settings. In this paper, we focus on understanding such a bias induced in learning through dropout, a popular technique to avoid overfitting in deep learning. For single hidden-layer linear neural networks, we show that dropout tends to make the norm of incoming/outgoing weight vectors of all the hidden nodes equal. In addition, we provide a complete characterization of the optimization landscape induced by dropout.