How is standard dropout commonly handled at inference time?

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  1. Delete the trained model
  2. Drop every unit
  3. Use the full scaled network

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References

  1. Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting www.jmlr.org/papers/v15/srivastava14a.html Checked 2026-10-10.

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