All convolutions in the dense block are ReLU-activated and use batch normalization. Channel-smart concatenation is only achievable if the peak and width dimensions of the info stay unchanged, so convolutions inside of a dense block are all of stride one. Pooling layers are inserted between dense blocks for even https://financefeeds.com/franklin-templeton-report-bullish-on-ai-agents-time-to-buy-ai-copyright/