2020 NIPS NeurIPS 2020

On Convergence and Generalization of Dropout Training

Abstract

We study dropout in two-layer neural networks with rectified linear unit (ReLU) activations. Under mild overparametrization and assuming that the limiting kernel can separate the data distribution with a positive margin, we show that the dropout training with logistic loss achieves $\epsilon$-suboptimality in the test error in $O(1/\epsilon)$ iterations.

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