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by esafak 1061 days ago
That is one lens to view it through. Co-adaptation reduction is another, and it is an intuitive one: generalization ability is improved if a neuron has to support multiple contexts instead of relying on other neurons to lift the weight, if you pardon the pun.

Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0580