Hinton reveals dropout was inspired by bank tellers being rotated to prevent fraud
CSProfKGD · x · 2026-10-25
Hinton shared the origin story of dropout: bank tellers were constantly rotated, and he realized this prevents employees from cooperating to defraud the bank — the same anti-collusion logic behind randomly deactivating neurons during training.
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