DGeC: Dynamically and Globally Enhanced Convolution
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Abstract
We explore the reasons for the poorer feature extraction ability of vanilla convolution and discover that there mainly exist three key factors that restrict its representation capability, i.e., regular sampling, static aggregation, and limited receptive field. With the cost of extra parameters and computations, existing approaches merely alleviate part of the limitations. It drives us to seek a more lightweight operator to further improve the extracted image features. Through a closer examination of the convolution process, we discover that it is composed of two distinct interactions: spatial-wise interaction and channel-wise interaction. Based on this discovery, we decouple the convolutional blocks into these two interactions which not only reduces the parameters and computations but also enables a richer ensemble of interactions. Then, we propose the dynamically and globally enhanced convolution (DGeC), which includes several components as follows: a dynamic area perceptor block (DAP) that dynamically samples spatial cues, an adaptive global context block (AGC) that introduces the location-aware global image information, and a channel attention perceptor block (CAP) that merges different channel-wise features. The experiments on ImageNet for image classification and on COCO-2017 for object detection validate the effectiveness of DGeC. As a result, our proposed method consistently improves the performance with fewer parameters and computations. In particular, DGeC achieves a 3.1% improvement in top-1 accuracy on ImageNet dataset compared to ResNet50. Moreover, with Faster RCNN and RetinaNet, our DGeC-ResNet50 also consistently outperforms ResNet and ResNeXt.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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.
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