# maxout

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A certain approach to neural networks that attempts to improve on the dropout technique. Its activation function is the maximum of the inputs.

## Etymology
Blend of maximum + dropout; coined in a 2013 paper by Ian J. Goodfellow et al.

## Source
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