You forgot the most robust mf of all:

M e d i a n P o o l i n g

Why don't you provide paper references for these types of pooling so that we can see them in context and in action?

And Blur Pooling is missing too

Fractional max-pooling?

That's what I would have imagined Rank Based Average Pooling referred to, but apparently Rank Based Average Pooling is some complicated mess.

Transformer Pooling

MLP Pooling

Has anyone here found that the choice of pooling makes any difference?

Don't forget the max blur pool! https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.11486.pdf

As u/npielawski mentioned as well

Deep Generalized Max Pooling: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05040

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2009/2009.07485.pdf, I 've updated in the article also.

At this point, whenever I see a medium link, i kind of just expect it to be some half assed content meant to give search engine coverage or w/e.

Granted I did not read the article. It's entirely possible that this is the exception to the rule, and OP really just wanted to share a good read.

But the answer to your question may very well be "because it was never meant to educate or inform. It was made just to drive clicks"

It's honestly like the OnlyFans of tech news. "Here's a little tease. For only $9.99 a month, you get exclusive access to my entire disappointfolio"

Should the Reddit ban medium links?

I think that's something mods should handle on a post-to-post basis. Scrolling through the comments here for instance, people don't seem to mind. If the community is interacting with the content and it can bring people together and spark interesting discussion, then it's a positive contribution in my book.

If it should get out of hand and the sub starts getting flooded with low effort content and self promos, then it might make sense to ban it or restrict it to "medium Mondays" or w/e. It's definitely something to watch out for. Lots of tech related subs just turn into link dumps that people use to promote their blogs.

Anyway I don't think we're anywhere near that point though. I find content here is generally pretty high quality. I don't know if it's due to the community or good moderation.

I just personally dislike Medium. The content is generally low effort, and it bothers me that lately, the first 2 pages of search engine results are mostly behind a pay wall.

While it introduces extra non-convexity, parameterized softmax pooling allows the pooling layer to smoothly choose how it behaves within the min-avg-max pooling spectrum