DenseNet improves on ResNet by having each layer receive feature maps from all preceding layers through concatenation rather than summation. This reduces vanishing gradients and strengthens feature propagation. MobileNet uses depthwise separable convolutions to reduce computation cost, making it useful for mobile applications. Depthwise separable convolutions split convolutions into depthwise convolutions and pointwise convolutions. While MobileNet has lower performance than ResNet, it has much lower computation requirements, trading off accuracy for efficiency.
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