Enhanced RecycleNet for Efficient Waste Classification
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Abstract
Segregation of recyclable waste items is one of the crucial aspects of smart cities and their industrial applications. CNN-based machine learning models are widely used to predict and classify image datasets. Traditional deep learning models are fast in training the image dataset, but the classification accuracy is usually too low. Different densely connected CNN architectures are widely used to improve the accuracy in the image waste classification. Despite the remarkable accuracy in such densely connected models, these models often suffer from high computational complexity during the training phase. To overcome this computational complexity, DenseNet121 has been developed, which reduces the training time due to its unique dense block architecture. RecycleNet is a modification of DenseNet121 where the skip connections in the dense block architecture are changed to reduce the computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a unique model called Enhanced RecycleNet, where the skip connections between the dense block architecture are reduced to one-third than in the DenseNet121 model. This unique architecture has improved the model's performance by 46.3% and decreased the trainable parameters from 7 million to about 2.4 million.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".