Pooling in general is designed to reduce the size of the data. The idea behind using the max pooling operation is to capture the most important features from the previous layer, which is the main argument over simply averaging. That said, average pooling does have its place.
Can you explain why "avg" is a poor choice?
Pooling in general is designed to reduce the size of the data. The idea behind using the max pooling operation is to capture the most important features from the previous layer, which is the main argument over simply averaging. That said, average pooling does have its place.