Bibliographic record
Abstract
Non-local dependency is a very important prior for many image segmentation tasks. Generally, convolutional operations are building blocks that process one local neighborhood at a time which means the convolutional neural networks(CNNs) usually do not explicitly make use of the non-local prior on image segmentation tasks. Though the pooling and dilated convolution techniques can enlarge the receptive field to use some nonlocal information during the feature extracting step, there is no nonlocal priori for feature classification step in the current CNNs' architectures. In this paper, we present a non-local total variation (TV) regularized softmax activation function method for semantic image segmentation tasks. The proposed method can be integrated into the architecture of CNNs. To handle the difficulty of back-propagation for CNNs due to the non-smoothness of nonlocal TV, we develop a primal-dual hybrid gradient method to realize the back-propagation of nonlocal TV in CNNs. Experimental evaluations of the non-local TV regularized softmax layer on a series of image segmentation datasets showcase its good performance. Many CNNs can benefit from our proposed method on image segmentation tasks.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".