Capsule Network

Paper

Dynamic Routing Between Capsules

Ideas

The output of capsule is a vector, instead of a scaler. Vectors can carry more infomation, and each dimensions is interpretable.

The length of the vector represents the probablility.

  • squash function: short vectors get shrunk to almost zero length, and long vectors get shrunk to a length slightly below 1.

High level features computed by routing algorithm, instead of using max-pooling, because max-pooling loses information.

Routing algorithm

  • low layer vector times a parametric matrix to get next layer vector
  • the relations between two layer vectors are weighted.
  • similar to K-means to update the weight.
  • backward to update the matrix.

Implementation

CapsNet by pytorch

Paper

Matrix capsules with EM routing

Ideas