impossiblefork t1_jccknnx wrote
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There are workarounds though.
Dropconnect isn't patent encumbered (degrades feature detectors/neurons by dropping connections instead of disabling them) and is, I think better than dropout.
Similarly, with transformers, Google has a patent on encoder-decoder architectures, so everyone uses decoder-only architectures, etc.
Some companies are probably going to patent critical AI/ML things, but that hasn't really happened yet and I don't believe that any patent encumbered method is currently either critical or even optimal.
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