feat(nn): implement stochastic masking in Dropout - #867
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Dropout was an identity placeholder in both phases. It now applies inverted dropout under a training-phase context: each element is zeroed with probability p and survivors are scaled by 1/(1-p), so the expected activation is preserved and inference needs no rescaling. The mask is a constant tensor combined with an element-wise multiply, so gradients flow to surviving inputs without a dedicated autograd rule. An injectable Random enables reproducible masks. Identity paths stay in lang-core tests; value-level masking behavior is tested on the real CPU backend (the lang-core default context uses the shape-only Void ops). Closes #861
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Bump version 0.36.0 -> 0.37.0 (gradle.properties, docs/antora.yml, README quickstart). Promote CHANGELOG [Unreleased] to [0.37.0]: Lstm layer (SKaiNET-developers#824), real Dropout masking (SKaiNET-developers#867), LR schedules and mutable optimizer lr (SKaiNET-developers#866), optional-bias and open Linear (SKaiNET-developers#870, SKaiNET-developers#875), androidNative IO targets (SKaiNET-developers#836, SKaiNET-developers#842, SKaiNET-developers#845), the SDPA default-scale fix (SKaiNET-developers#880), three autograd fixes (SKaiNET-developers#877), the argMax DAG output spec (SKaiNET-developers#878), tokenizer BPE inference and N-D gather (SKaiNET-developers#879), plus the CI/docs supply-chain hardening and toolchain bumps. Refresh README "What's New" and add a Contributors (0.37.0) section. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #861.
What
sk.ainet.lang.nn.layers.Dropoutwas an identity placeholder in both phases (its own KDoc said so). It now implements inverted dropout:ctx.inTraining,trainingflag,p > 0): each element is zeroed with probabilityp, survivors are scaled by1 / (1 - p)— expected activation preserved, no rescaling needed at inference.training = false, orp == 0): exact identity, as before.ops.multiply, so gradients flow to the surviving inputs only — standard dropout backward with no dedicated autograd rule.random: Random = Random.Default(defaulted, source-compatible) for reproducible masks.UnsupportedOperationException(mirrorsCrossEntropyLoss's float-only contract).Tests
DropoutTest,DropoutPhaseTest): identity paths now assert values, masked path asserts shape. Note: the lang-core default context runs on the shape-onlyVoidTensorOpsbackend (every op returns zeros), which is why the value-level assertions can't live there — and, incidentally, why the placeholder behavior was never caught.DropoutMaskingTest, new): every output element is0or1/(1-p)with both present; mean over 10k elements stays ≈ 1 (p = 0.3); seeded masks are bit-reproducible; eval phase is an exact identity.apiDump, android mirrored by hand — no Android SDK on this machine).Motivation
Any model using
Dropoutfor regularization currently trains without it, silently. Found while porting a GPT training pipeline (attention-weight dropout) to SKaiNET 0.36.0 — details in #861.