Home › Words › M › maxoutmaxoutmaxout means A certain approach to neural networks that attempts to improve on the dropout technique. Its activation function is the maximum of the inputs.EtymologyBlend of maximum + dropout; coined in a 2013 paper by Ian J. Goodfellow et al.nounA certain approach to neural networks that attempts to improve on the dropout technique. Its activation function is the maximum of the inputs.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).