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Stacking Deep Set Networks and Pooling by Quantiles

21 Jul 2024ICML 2024 7archive 2025-07-28

Zhuojun Chen, Xinghua Zhu, Dongzhe Su, Justin C. I. Chuang

We propose Stacked Deep Sets and Quantile Pooling for learning tasks on set data. We introduce Quantile Pooling, a novel permutation-invariant pooling operation that synergizes max and average pooling. Just like max pooling, quantile pooling emphasizes the most salient features of the data. Like average pooling, it captures the overall distribution and subtle features of the data. Like both, it is lightweight and fast. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in a variety of tasks, showing that quantile pooling can outperform both max and average pooling in each of their respective strengths. We also introduce a variant of deep set networks that is more expressive and universal. While Quantile Pooling balances robustness and sensitivity, Stacked Deep Sets enhances learning with depth.

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