What is overfitting and how does Dropout prevent it?
Tests generalization intuition: overfitting is low train error but high test error. Good answers say dropout randomly zeros hidden units during training to stop co-adaptation. Bad answers say dropout permanently deletes neurons or just reduces capacity.
Tests whether you distinguish memorization from generalization and explain dropout as a stochastic regularizer. A strong answer defines overfitting as low training error but high test error because the model memorizes noise. It then describes dropout as randomly zeroing hidden units during forward passes to break co-adaptation and approximate an ensemble of thinned networks. A red flag is claiming dropout permanently shrinks the architecture or merely reduces parameter count without mentioning the training-time randomness and inference scaling.
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