arXiv Machine Learning By Ziyuan Li, Osamah Sufyan, Uwe Jaekel, Babette Dellen

PU-UNet: Stable Multiplicative Interactions for Medical Image Segmentation

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arXiv:2606. 20035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many dense prediction networks rely on additive feature transformations and model higher-order feature interactions only implicitly.

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