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## Spatial sparsity
This library brings [Spatially-sparse convolutional networks](https://github.com/btgraham/SparseConvNet) to Torch/PyTorch. Moreover, it introduces **Submanifold Sparse Convolutions**, that can be used to build computationally efficient sparse VGG/ResNet/DenseNet-style networks.
This library brings [Spatially-sparse convolutional networks](https://github.com/btgraham/SparseConvNet) to PyTorch and [Torch classic](README_Torch.md). Moreover, it introduces **Submanifold Sparse Convolutions**, that can be used to build computationally efficient sparse VGG/ResNet/DenseNet-style networks.
With regular 3x3 convolutions, the set of active (non-zero) sites grows rapidly:<br/>
1.[ICDAR 2013 Chinese Handwriting Recognition Competition 2013](http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/events/CHRcompetition2013/competition/Home.html) First place in task 3, with test error of 2.61%. Human performance on the test set was 4.81%. [Report](http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/events/CHRcompetition2013/competition/ICDAR%202013%20CHR%20competition.pdf)
2.[Spatially-sparse convolutional neural networks, 2014](http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.6070) SparseConvNets for Chinese handwriting recognition