Let's understand the constituents of overfitting and how to avoid it in neural networks. Nitesh Srivastava, Geoffrey Hinton, et al. published a paper, https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/JMLRdropout.pdf, in 2014, which shows cases on how to avoid overfitting.
Avoiding overfitting in neural networks
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