Questions tagged [average-pooling]

Is it popular or effective to concatenate the results of mean-pooling and max-pooling, to get the invariance of the latter and the expressivity of the former?

Consider the following excerpt taken from the chapter named Using convolutions to generalize from the textbook titled Deep Learning with PyTorch by Eli Stevens et al. Downsampling could in principle occur in different ways. Scaling an image by half…