[Submitted on 23 Apr 2020]

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Abstract: There are a huge number of features which are said to improve Convolutional
Neural Network (CNN) accuracy. Practical testing of combinations of such
features on large datasets, and theoretical justification of the result, is
required. Some features operate on certain models exclusively and for certain
problems exclusively, or only for small-scale datasets; while some features,
such as batch-normalization and residual-connections, are applicable to the
majority of models, tasks, and datasets. We assume that such universal features
include Weighted-Residual-Connections (WRC), Cross-Stage-Partial-connections
(CSP), Cross mini-Batch Normalization (CmBN), Self-adversarial-training (SAT)
and Mish-activation. We use new features: WRC, CSP, CmBN, SAT, Mish activation,
Mosaic data augmentation, CmBN, DropBlock regularization, and CIoU loss, and
combine some of them to achieve state-of-the-art results: 43.5% AP (65.7% AP50)
for the MS COCO dataset at a realtime speed of ~65 FPS on Tesla V100. Source
code is at this https URL