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tags:
- ai
- [Skip Connections](Skip%20Connections.md) across individual layers
- Conditionally
- Soft gates
- Learn vs carry
- Gradients propagate further
- Inspired by [LSTM](../../RNN/LSTM.md) [RNN](../../RNN/RNN.md)s
![highway-vs-residual](../../../../img/highway-vs-residual.png)
![skip-connections 1](../../../../img/skip-connections%201.png)