def METHOD_NAME(x, drop_prob=0., training=False):
    """
        Drop paths (Stochastic Depth) per sample (when applied in main path of residual blocks).
        the original name is misleading as 'Drop Connect' is a different form of dropout in a separate paper...
        See discussion: https://github.com/tensorflow/tpu/issues/494#issuecomment-532968956 ...
    """
    if drop_prob == 0. or not training:
        return x
    keep_prob = paddle.to_tensor(1 - drop_prob, dtype=x.dtype)
    shape = (paddle.shape(x)[0], ) + (1, ) * (x.ndim - 1)
    random_tensor = keep_prob + paddle.rand(shape, dtype=x.dtype)
    random_tensor = paddle.floor(random_tensor)  # binarize
    output = x.divide(keep_prob) * random_tensor
    return output