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What is stochastic depth in deep neural networks?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Stochastic depth randomly skips layers during training.
Deep explanation
It improves training of very deep networks by randomly dropping entire residual blocks, effectively training an ensemble of subnetworks.
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