Abstract: We consider a vector of independent normal random variables with unknown means but known variances. Our problem is to reduce the total variance of these random variables by exploiting the a ...
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Abstract: This paper first answers the question ``why do the two most powerful techniques Dropout and Batch Normalization (BN) often lead to a worse performance when they are combined together in many ...