General ML Regularization Techniques

ANN Specific Regularization Techniques

Regularization Methods Comparisons on MNIST

Method

Test Classification Error %

L2

1.62

L2 + L1 applied towards the end of training

1.60

L2 + KL-sparsity

1.55

Max-Norm

1.35

Dropout + L2

1.25

Dropout + Max-Norm

1.05

From Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting