Variational Dropout
Variational Dropout
**Variational Dropout** is a regularization technique based on [dropout](https://paperswithcode.com/method/dropout), but uses a variational inference grounded approach. In Variational Dropout, we repeat the same dropout mask at each time step for both inputs, outputs, and recurrent layers (drop the same network units at each time step). This is in contrast to ordinary Dropout where different dropout masks are sampled at each time step for the inputs and outputs alone.
A Theoretically Grounded Application of Dropout in Recurrent Neural Networks
https://paperswithcode.com/paper/a-theoretically-grounded-application-of
A Theoretically Grounded Application of Dropout in Recurrent Neural Networks