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Involution
Introduced by Duo Li et al. in Involution: Inverting the Inherence of Convolution for Visual Recognition
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Involution is an atomic operation for deep neural networks that inverts the design principles of convolution. Involution kernels are distinct in the spatial extent but shared across channels. If involution kernels are parameterized as fixed-sized matrices like convolution kernels and updated using the back-propagation algorithm, the learned involution kernels are impeded from transferring between input images with variable resolutions.
The authors argue for two benefits of involution over convolution: (i) involution can summarize the context in a wider spatial arrangement, thus overcome the difficulty of modeling long-range interactions well; (ii) involution can adaptively allocate the weights over different positions, so as to prioritize the most informative visual elements in the spatial domain.
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Involution and BSConv Multi-Depth Distillation Network for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution 18 Mar 2025 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2503.14779
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LAM-YOLO: Drones-based Small Object Detection on Lighting-Occlusion Attention Mechanism YOLO 1 Nov 2024 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2411.00485
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GIU-GANs: Global Information Utilization for Generative Adversarial Networks 25 Jan 2022 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2201.10471
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Automatic Modulation Classification Using Involution Enabled Residual Networks 23 Aug 2021 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2108.10001
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Involution: Inverting the Inherence of Convolution for Visual Recognition 10 Mar 2021 · 13 repositories · arXiv:2103.06255Syntology ran 7 of 9 samples · 2 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
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