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maxout

maxout noun: a certain approach to neural networks that attempts to improve on the dropout technique. Its activation function is the maximum of the inputs.

Noun

maxout (uncountable)

  1. A certain approach to neural networks that attempts to improve on the dropout technique. Its activation function is the maximum of the inputs.
    • 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.2016, George Saon, Tom Sercu, Steven Rennie, Hong-Kwang J. Kuo, “The IBM 2016 English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition System”, in arXiv

Origin of maxout

Blend of maximum + dropout; coined in a 2013 paper by Ian J. Goodfellow et al.

Questions about maxout

What does maxout mean?
Maxout means a certain approach to neural networks that attempts to improve on the dropout technique. Its activation function is the maximum of the inputs.
What part of speech is maxout?
Maxout is a noun.

Words near maxout in the dictionary

  1. maxofacial
  2. Maxon
  3. Maxonian
  4. Maxonians
  5. Maxons
  6. maxout
  7. maxplane
  8. maxs.
  9. Maxson
  10. Maxsons
  11. Maxstoke

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