---
title: dropoutProbability
framework: createmlcomponents
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: createmlcomponents/fullyconnectednetworkconfiguration/dropoutprobability
---

# dropoutProbability

The dropout probability.

## Declaration

```swift
var dropoutProbability: Float
```

## Discussion

Discussion Dropout layers are placed after fully-connected layers to help prevent over-fitting. Defaults to 0.2.

## See Also

### Getting the properties

- [batchSize](createmlcomponents/fullyconnectednetworkconfiguration/batchsize.md)
- [earlyStopIterationCount](createmlcomponents/fullyconnectednetworkconfiguration/earlystopiterationcount.md)
- [earlyStoppingTolerance](createmlcomponents/fullyconnectednetworkconfiguration/earlystoppingtolerance.md)
- [hiddenUnitCounts](createmlcomponents/fullyconnectednetworkconfiguration/hiddenunitcounts.md)
- [learningRate](createmlcomponents/fullyconnectednetworkconfiguration/learningrate.md)
- [maximumIterations](createmlcomponents/fullyconnectednetworkconfiguration/maximumiterations.md)
- [randomSeed](createmlcomponents/fullyconnectednetworkconfiguration/randomseed.md)