[R][1708.04552] Improved Regularization of Convolutional Neural Networks with Cutout • r/MachineLearning

I'm not sure either of these scooped anyone. I think last week I read about an example applied to moss classification, and even there I was unimpressed - it's the obvious mirror to doing random crops for data augmentation, which has been around for years, and I would bet dollars to donuts that'Cutout'/'Random Erasing' have been used before and might be implemented already in libraries because they're so obvious.