maxout

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English

Etymology

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

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.
    • 2016, George Saon, Tom Sercu, Steven Rennie, Hong-Kwang J. Kuo, “The IBM 2016 English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition System”, in arXiv:
      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.