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I can't understand why dropout works like this in tensorflow. The blog of CS231n says that "dropout is implemented by only keeping a neuron active with some probability p (a hyperparameter), or setting it to zero otherwise." Also, you can see this from the picture(Taken from the same site) enter image description here

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From the tensorflow site, With probability keep_prob, outputs the input element scaled up by 1 / keep_prob, otherwise outputs 0.

 

Now, why the input element is scaled up by 1/keep_prob? Why not keep the input element as it is with probability and not scale it with 1/keep_prob?

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There are many advantages of data preprocessing like scaling or normalization before the training model. Scaling enables the same model to be used for training and evaluation.

If you use a single neural net at test time without dropout, then the weight of that network will be scaled-down versions of the trained weights. If a unit is retained with probability p during training, the outgoing weights of that unit are multiplied by p at test time. 

You can use TensorFlow implementation to add op to scale up the weights by (1/keep_prob) at the training time, rather than adding ops to scale down the weights by keep_prob 1 to at the test time.

Afterward, the effect on performance is negligible, and the code will be simpler because we use that same graph to treat keep_prob as a tf.placeholder() to feed a different value depending on whether we are training or evaluating the network.

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