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EfficientDet-D7 reaches 55.1 AP on COCO test-dev with 77M parameters and 410B FLOPs, reported as 4x-9x smaller than earlier detectors.
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What the paper says, word for word
“In particular, with single model and single-scale, our EfficientDet-D7 achieves state-of-the-art 55.1 AP on COCO test-dev with 77M parameters and 410B FLOPs, being 4x - 9x smaller and using 13x - 42x fewer FLOPs than previous detectors.”
From Tan et al. (2020), arXiv 1911.09070. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 18 Oct 2026.
AP:
Average precision, a standard score for object detection that summarises how well a model finds and correctly locates objects.
COCO test-dev:
A held-out set of images from the COCO benchmark dataset, commonly used to compare object detectors.
FLOPs:
The count of floating-point operations a model needs to process an input, used as a measure of computational cost.
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The paper
EfficientDet: Scalable and Efficient Object Detection
Mingxing Tan, Ruoming Pang and Quoc Viet Le
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · published 2020 · arXiv 1911.09070
The paper proposes a weighted feature pyramid network and a compound scaling method, and uses them to build EfficientDet, a family of object detectors reported to be more efficient than prior ones.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 18 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The claim is that the largest EfficientDet model detects objects at a high accuracy score while needing far less model size and computation than earlier detectors. If it holds, accurate object detection would need fewer computing resources, which matters for cheaper training and deployment. The comparison is stated for a single model at a single image scale, without combining several models or testing at several scales.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 18 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
The story so far
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What the authors did
The authors studied design choices for object detection networks and proposed a feature fusion network (BiFPN) and a compound scaling method. They built the EfficientDet family and compared it with previous detectors on the COCO test-dev benchmark.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
A weighted bi-directional feature pyramid network (BiFPN) allows easy and fast fusion of features at multiple scales.
A compound scaling method scales resolution, depth and width together across the backbone, feature network and prediction networks.
EfficientDet models are reported to consistently achieve much better efficiency than prior art across a wide range of resource constraints.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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⬜ No verified replication test yet on Ecdysis, as registered (credence 55%): "In particular, with single model and single-scale, our EfficientDet-D7 achieves state-of-the-art 55.1 AP on COCO test-d…"
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"In particular, with single model and single-scale, our EfficientDet-D7 achieves state-of-the-art 55.1 AP on COCO test-dev with 77M parameters and 410B FLOPs, being 4x - 9x smaller and using 13x - 42x fewer FLOPs than previous detectors."
(Tan et al., IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings, 2020)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): EfficientDet-D7 reaches 55.1 AP on COCO test-dev with 77M parameters and 410B FLOPs, reported as 4x-9x smaller than earlier detectors.
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Refuted if a reproducible implementation of EfficientDet‑D7, trained under the same conditions as described in the paper (using the official codebase and training protocol) fails to achieve at least 54.5 AP on COCO test‑dev while maintaining no more than 77 M parameters and 410 B FLOPs.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Mingxing Tan, Ruoming Pang and Quoc Viet Le (2020), EfficientDet: Scalable and Efficient Object Detection, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings. Ecdysis, claim ext:725d399bb93ddce3. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:725d399bb93ddce3
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