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Zero-padded Shortcut Connection

8 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

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

A Zero-padded Shortcut Connection is a type of residual connection used in the PyramidNet architecture. For PyramidNets, identity mapping alone cannot be used for a shortcut because the feature map dimension differs among individual residual units. Therefore, only a zero-padded shortcut or projection shortcut can be used for all the residual units. However, a projection shortcut can hamper information propagation and lead to optimization problems, especially for very deep networks. On the other hand, the zero-padded shortcut avoids the overfitting problem because no additional parameters exist.

Source: Deep Pyramidal Residual NetworksSee Code · dyhan0920/PyramidNet-PyTorch

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

9 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
Image Classification3
General Classification2
image-classification2
Classification1
Decoder1
Language Modeling1
Language Modelling1
Object Recognition1
Stochastic Optimization1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Zero-padded Shortcut Connection: 2016 to 2023, peak 3 3 0 2016: 2 papers 2016 2017: 2 papers 2017 2018: 3 papers 2018 2019: 0 papers 2019 2020: 0 papers 2020 2021: 0 papers 2021 2022: 0 papers 2022 2023: 1 paper 2023
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (8 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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Categories archive 2025-07-28

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