arXiv Machine Learning By Javier Maass, L\'ena\"ic Chizat

Dropout and Random Gradient Masking Are Asymptotically Equivalent in Large ResNets

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arXiv:2607. 16761v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dropout and Random Gradient Masking (RaM) are two training techniques used to improve performance in deep learning.

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Don't Drop Dropout: Optimizing Layer Sparsity for Efficient LLM Training and Inference

The paper demonstrates that layer dropout, also known as stochastic depth, can be effectively used in state‑of‑the‑art large language model (LLM) training. By optimizing the layer distribution, schedule, and optimizer settings, the authors show that layer dropout can reduce training loss while saving up to 25 % of training FLOPs. Additionally, layer dropout enables post‑training optimizations such as early exit and self‑speculative decoding, achieving up to 1.5× inference speedup with negligible accuracy loss across models ranging from 271 M to 8.2 B parameters and datasets up to 160 B tokens.

By Mostafa Elhoushi, Alex Pretko, Nolan Dey, Bin Claire Zhang, Gavia Gray, Gurpreet Gosal, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Shane Bergsma, Joel Hestness