That makes sense to me. I guess I’m dissatisfied here because the idea of an ensemble seems to be that individual components in the ensemble are independent; whereas in the unraveled view of a residual network, different paths still interact with each other (e.g. if two paths overlap, then ablating one of them could also (in principle) change the value computed by the other path). This seems to be the mechanism that explains redundancy.
That makes sense to me. I guess I’m dissatisfied here because the idea of an ensemble seems to be that individual components in the ensemble are independent; whereas in the unraveled view of a residual network, different paths still interact with each other (e.g. if two paths overlap, then ablating one of them could also (in principle) change the value computed by the other path). This seems to be the mechanism that explains redundancy.