What Are Transposed Convolutions?

Understanding how the "reverse" convolution works

Daniel Godoy
Towards Data Science
5 min readMay 23, 2022

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Introduction

Transposed convolutions are like the "ugly duckling" of the convolutional family. They are quirky and weird, but there's more to a transposed convolution than it meets the eye.

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