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Which regularization technique prevents overfitting by randomly setting a fraction of input neurons to zero during each training step?

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Dropout

Dropout forces a neural network to learn redundant representations and reduces the reliance on specific neurons. It effectively acts as a way of training an ensemble of an exponential number of smaller networks.

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