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title: Average Pooling - A Convolutional Operation
description: Introduction to Average Pooling - A Convolutional Operation to shrink the size of an input.
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# [Average Pooling - A Convolutional Operation](https://www.xenonstack.com/glossary/average-pooling)

 Written by [Dr. Jagreet Kaur](https://www.xenonstack.com/glossary/author/dr-jagreet-kaur) | 17 Mar 2023

## What is Average Pooling?

Averages the results of a convolutional operation. It is often used to shrink the size of an input. Average pooling was primarily used in older Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) architectures, while recent architectures favour maximum pooling.

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