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However, this process may result in a substantial loss of granular information due to the sampling operation and the widely-used max pooling feature aggregation, which neglects information from non-maximum point features. Consequently, the resulting high-semantic point features could be insufficient to represent the local context, hindering the network\u2019s ability to distinguish fine shapes. To address this problem, we propose PointStack, a novel point cloud feature learning network that utilizes multi-resolution feature learning and learnable pooling (LP). PointStack aggregates point features of various resolutions across multiple layers to capture both high-semantic and high-resolution information. The LP function calculates the weighted sum of multi-resolution point features through an attention mechanism with learnable queries, enabling the extraction of all available information. As a result, PointStack can effectively represent both global and local contexts, allowing the network to comprehend both the global structure and local shape details. 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