DL-CapsNet: A Deep and Light Capsule Network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00061v1
• Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:45:11 GMT
• Title: DL-CapsNet: A Deep and Light Capsule Network
• Authors: Pouya Shiri, Amirali Baniasadi,
• Abstract summary: We propose a deep variant of CapsNet consisting of several capsule layers.<n>DL-CapsNet, while being highly accurate, employs a small number of parameters and delivers faster training and inference.
• Score: 0.07161783472741746
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Capsule Network (CapsNet) is among the promising classifiers and a possible successor of the classifiers built based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). CapsNet is more accurate than CNNs in detecting images with overlapping categories and those with applied affine transformations. In this work, we propose a deep variant of CapsNet consisting of several capsule layers. In addition, we design the Capsule Summarization layer to reduce the complexity by reducing the number of parameters. DL-CapsNet, while being highly accurate, employs a small number of parameters and delivers faster training and inference. DL-CapsNet can process complex datasets with a high number of categories.

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