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Convolution

introduced 1980 19,586 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

A convolution is a type of matrix operation, consisting of a kernel, a small matrix of weights, that slides over input data performing element-wise multiplication with the part of the input it is on, then summing the results into an output.

Intuitively, a convolution allows for weight sharing - reducing the number of effective parameters - and image translation (allowing for the same feature to be detected in different parts of the input space).

Image Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.07285.pdf

Papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 19,586, newest first. Repository counts are the archive's code-links table. A Syntology line states what Syntology ran from that paper's harvested code; it is per sample and not a correctness claim.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

20 shown of 2,121 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Semantic Segmentation2,045
Segmentation1,823
Object Detection1,691
object-detection1,561
Image Classification1,252
image-classification1,008
Object943
General Classification837
Decoder822
Image Segmentation776
Classification719
Transfer Learning684
Reinforcement Learning (RL)648
Image Generation647
Deep Learning628
Generative Adversarial Network603
Data Augmentation587
Reinforcement Learning579
reinforcement-learning578
GPU497

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Convolution: 2008 to 2025, peak 2,967 2,967 0 2008: 1 paper 2008 2009: 0 papers 2010: 5 papers 2010 2011: 0 papers 2012: 4 papers 2012 2013: 14 papers 2014: 39 papers 2014 2015: 106 papers 2016: 294 papers 2016 2017: 732 papers 2018: 1529 papers 2018 2019: 2324 papers 2020: 2726 papers 2020 2021: 2967 papers 2022: 2613 papers 2022 2023: 2626 papers 2024: 2607 papers 2024 2025: 999 papers 2025
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (19,586 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

Components: the archive holds no method-to-method composition, so PwC's Components table cannot be rebuilt; the Papers list carries no Results column for the same reason (the archive does not join its leaderboard rows to method tags).

Categories archive 2025-07-28

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