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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Advanced Chemical Physics Studies

   Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   Perdew, Burke and Ernzerhof · Physical Review Letters · 1996

   The paper derives a simple generalized gradient approximation for the exchange-correlation energy, using only fundamental constants beyond those in LSD, and says it improves on PW91.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors say their simpler GGA improves on the earlier PW91 version in three ways: linear response, uniform scaling and a smoother potential.“Improvements over PW91 include an accurate description of the linear response of the uniform electron gas, correct behavior under uniform scaling, and a smoother potential.”

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   An Analysis of Scale Invariance in Object Detection - SNIP

   Singh and Davis · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

   The paper compares scale-specific and scale-invariant detector designs, proposes training and testing on the same image-pyramid scales, and introduces SNIP, a training scheme reported to reach 45.7% single-model performance on COCO.

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   1. UncheckedTesting network designs on small-object classification in ImageNet, the authors report that CNNs are not robust to changes in object scale.“By evaluating the performance of different network architectures for classifying small objects on ImageNet, we show that CNNs are not robust to changes in scale.”
   2. UncheckedOn the COCO dataset, the authors' single detector scores 45.7% and an ensemble of three networks reaches 48.3% mAP.“On the COCO dataset, our single model performance is 45.7% and an ensemble of 3 networks obtains an mAP of 48.3%.”