Maxout
noun
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Noun
- 1 A certain approach to neural networks that attempts to improve on the dropout technique. Its activation function is the maximum of the inputs. uncountable
"On the acoustic side, we use a score fusion of three strong models: recurrent nets with maxout activations, very deep convolutional nets with 3x3 kernels, and bidirectional long-short term memory nets which operate on bottleneck features."
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More examples"On the acoustic side, we use a score fusion of three strong models: recurrent nets with maxout activations, very deep convolutional nets with 3x3 kernels, and bidirectional long-short term memory nets which operate on bottleneck features."
Etymology
Blend of maximum + dropout; coined in a 2013 paper by Ian J. Goodfellow et al.
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