I notice your models doesn't have increasing filter as the original paper where each convolution layer in dense block has an increasing number of filter. Have you tried adding it and compare the difference?
Dense Net original implementation of dense block
https://github.com/liuzhuang13/DenseNet/blob/master/models/DenseConnectLayer.lua
I notice your models doesn't have increasing filter as the original paper where each convolution layer in dense block has an increasing number of filter. Have you tried adding it and compare the difference?
Dense Net original implementation of dense block
https://github.com/liuzhuang13/DenseNet/blob/master/models/DenseConnectLayer.lua