Machine learning

Capsule Network

A Capsule Network (CapsNet) is a deep learning architecture introduced by Sara Sabour, Nicholas Frosst and Geoffrey Hinton in 2017 that organises neurons as vectors (capsules) rather than scalar activations, so that spatial hierarchy and pose (orientation) information are encoded directly. It was proposed to overcome the fragility of convolutional networks to changes in viewpoint.

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Sources

  1. Sabour, S., Frosst, N. & Hinton, G. E. (2017). Dynamic Routing Between Capsules. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). link
  2. Hinton, G. E., Sabour, S. & Frosst, N. (2018). Matrix Capsules with EM Routing. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). link

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ScholarGateCapsule Network (Capsule Network (CapsNet)). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/deep-learning/capsule-network