[joshuamorton]

I guess my only followup would be are these "techniques" more akin (in broadness) to ResNet, or to Dropout? (to use an area that I believe we're both familiar with)

In other words, techniques that are broadly applicable to the field, or techniques that maybe spawn a family of related techniques, but appear to be useful only in a specific subdomain.

[dsacco]

That's a good comparison. In general, closer to Dropout.