Description: Skip connections are a technique used in neural networks that allows gradients to flow more easily during the training process. This approach is based on the idea that, instead of relying solely on sequential connections between neurons, additional connections are introduced that skip one or more layers. This helps mitigate the vanishing gradient problem, which is common in traditional neural networks, where gradients can become extremely small as they backpropagate through many layers. Skip connections allow information and gradients to flow more efficiently, facilitating the learning of long-term patterns in sequences of data. This technique has become essential in the development of more advanced architectures, such as long short-term memory (LSTM) networks and gated recurrent units (GRUs), which have proven effective in tasks requiring the understanding of prolonged contexts, such as natural language processing and time series prediction.
