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We present a method for fast inference in Capsule Networks (CapsNets) by taking advantage of a key insight regarding the routing coefficients that link capsules between adjacent network layers. Since the routing coefficients are responsible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zhen Zhao , Ashley Kleinhans , Gursharan Sandhu , Ishan Patel , K. P. Unnikrishnan

A key component to the success of deep learning is the availability of massive amounts of training data. Building and annotating large datasets for solving medical image classification problems is today a bottleneck for many applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Amelia Jiménez-Sánchez , Shadi Albarqouni , Diana Mateus

Capsule Networks have emerged as a powerful class of deep learning architectures, known for robust performance with relatively few parameters compared to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, their inherent efficiency is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Miles Everett , Mingjun Zhong , Georgios Leontidis

Capsule networks have gained a lot of popularity in short time due to its unique approach to model equivariant class specific properties as capsules from images. However the dynamic routing algorithm comes with a steep computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Bodhisatwa Mandal , Swarnendu Ghosh , Ritesh Sarkhel , Nibaran Das , Mita Nasipuri

Recently proposed Capsule Network is a brain inspired architecture that brings a new paradigm to deep learning by modelling input domain variations through vector based representations. Despite being a seminal contribution, CapsNet does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Sameera Ramasinghe , C. D. Athuralya , Salman Khan

Learning invariant representations has been the long-standing approach to self-supervised learning. However, recently progress has been made in preserving equivariant properties in representations, yet do so with highly prescribed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Miles Everett , Aiden Durrant , Mingjun Zhong , Georgios Leontidis

Capsule networks (CapsNets) are superior at modeling hierarchical spatial relationships but suffer from two critical limitations: high computational cost due to iterative dynamic routing and poor robustness under input corruptions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Canqun Xiang , Chen Yang , Jiaoyan Zhao

Routing methods in capsule networks often learn a hierarchical relationship for capsules in successive layers, but the intra-relation between capsules in the same layer is less studied, while this intra-relation is a key factor for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Yang Li , Wei Zhao , Erik Cambria , Suhang Wang , Steffen Eger

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) are brand-new architectures that have shown ground-breaking results in certain areas of Computer Vision (CV). In 2017, Hinton and his team introduced CapsNets with routing-by-agreement in "Sabour et al" and in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Moein Hasani , Amin Nasim Saravi , Hassan Khotanlou

In this paper, we propose a new capsule network architecture called Attention Routing CapsuleNet (AR CapsNet). We replace the dynamic routing and squash activation function of the capsule network with dynamic routing (CapsuleNet) with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Jaewoong Choi , Hyun Seo , Suii Im , Myungjoo Kang

Next-generation radio surveys will yield an unprecedented amount of data, warranting analysis by use of machine learning techniques. Convolutional neural networks are the deep learning technique that has proven to be the most successful in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 V. Lukic , M. Brüggen , B. Mingo , J. H. Croston , G. Kasieczka , P. N. Best

In this paper, we focus on learning low-dimensional embeddings for nodes in graph-structured data. To achieve this, we propose Caps2NE -- a new unsupervised embedding model leveraging a network of two capsule layers. Caps2NE induces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Dai Quoc Nguyen , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Dat Quoc Nguyen , Dinh Phung

Capsule Network (CapsNet) has demonstrated significant potential in visual recognition by capturing spatial relationships and part-whole hierarchies for learning equivariant feature representations. However, existing CapsNet and variants…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yudong Hu , Yueju Han , Rui Sun , Jinke Ren

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) have been re-introduced as a more compact and interpretable alternative to standard deep neural networks. While recent efforts have proved their compression capabilities, to date, their interpretability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Saja Tawalbeh , José Oramas

This paper presents an empirical exploration of the use of capsule networks for text classification. While it has been shown that capsule networks are effective for image classification, their validity in the domain of text has not been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Jaeyoung Kim , Sion Jang , Sungchul Choi , Eunjeong Park

Capsule Networks, as alternatives to Convolutional Neural Networks, have been proposed to recognize objects from images. The current literature demonstrates many advantages of CapsNets over CNNs. However, how to create explanations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Geometric transformations of the training data as well as the test data present challenges to the use of deep neural networks to vision-based learning tasks. In order to address this issue, we present a deep neural network model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Sai Raam Venkataraman , S. Balasubramanian , R. Raghunatha Sarma

Capsule neural networks replace simple, scalar-valued neurons with vector-valued capsules. They are motivated by the pattern recognition system in the human brain, where complex objects are decomposed into a hierarchy of simpler object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Matthias Mitterreiter , Marcel Koch , Joachim Giesen , Sören Laue

Capsule network is a type of neural network that uses the spatial relationship between features to classify images. By capturing the poses and relative positions between features, its ability to recognize affine transformation is improved,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Jiazhu Dai , Siwei Xiong

We present group equivariant capsule networks, a framework to introduce guaranteed equivariance and invariance properties to the capsule network idea. Our work can be divided into two contributions. First, we present a generic routing by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Jan Eric Lenssen , Matthias Fey , Pascal Libuschewski