Reviews: Dual Path Networks

The authors propose a new network architecture which is a combination of ResNets and DenseNets. They introduce a very informative theoretical formulation which can be used to formulate ResNets, DenseNets and their proposed architecture. Pros: () The paper is well written with theoretical and empirical results () The authors provide useful analysis and statistics () The impact of DPNs is shown on a variety of computer vision tasks () The performance of the DPNs on the presented vision tasks is compelling Cons: (-) Optional results on MS COCO would make the paper even stronger Network engineering is an important field and it is important that it is done correctly, with analysis and many in depth experiments. The impact of new architectures comes through their generalization capabilities. This paper does a good job on all of the above.