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Shortcut’s technique for identity mapping

• The "identity shortcuts" are referring to performing the element wise addition of x with the output of the residual layers.

• We consider a building block defined as: y = F (x, {Wi}) + x, where x and y are the input and output vectors of the layers considered, the function F (x, {Wi}) represents the residual mapping to be learned.

• The residual mapping (F (x, {Wi})) becomes y= W2σ2(W1x)+x • To sum up, we take the output x of a layer skip it forward and element wise sum it with the output of the residual mapping and thus produce a residual block.

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Updated 2026-09-10

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