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Why Dropout Disappeared from Large Language Models
BERT used dropout everywhere. LLaMA uses none. The reason isn't that regularization stopped mattering — it's that at trillion-token scale, data diversity IS the regularizer.
BERT used dropout everywhere. LLaMA uses none. The reason isn't that regularization stopped mattering — it's that at trillion-token scale, data diversity IS the regularizer.