is 50% dropout a good value to set?

awslabs / handwritten-text-recognition-for-apache-mxnet

This repository lets you train neural networks models for performing end-to-end full-page handwriting recognition using the Apache MXNet deep learning frameworks on the IAM Dataset.

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is 50% dropout a good value to set? #27

Closed man0007 closed 4 years ago

man0007 commented 4 years ago

HI,

I could see that the dropout percentage that is set in the handwritten_line_recognition.py script is 50%, is dropping half of the nodes a good suggestion?

self.p_dropout = 0.5

Please advice why 50% dropout is set here.

Thanks, Anand.

jonomon commented 4 years ago

This was found experimentally.