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Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2962721361","title":"Libra R-CNN: Towards Balanced Learning for Object Detection","authors":["Jiangmiao Pang","Kai Chen","Jianping Shi","Huajun Feng","Wanli Ouyang","Dahua Lin"],"authorCount":6,"venue":"IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings","year":2019,"type":"conference-paper","citedBy":1849,"keywords":["RetinaNet","object detection","Faster R-CNN","R-CNN","class imbalance"],"topic":{"topic":"Advanced Neural Network Applications","subfield":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition","field":"Computer Science","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-19T09:30:37.907Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"Libra R-CNN scores 2.5 AP points above FPN Faster R-CNN and 2.0 above RetinaNet on MSCOCO, without extra additions.","did":"The authors revisited standard detector training practice and identified imbalance at sample, feature and objective levels. They built a framework with three components to address these and tested it on MSCOCO against FPN Faster R-CNN and RetinaNet.","gist":"The paper proposes Libra R-CNN, a framework that reduces imbalance in training object detectors at three levels, and reports better detection performance than standard detectors.","meaning":"The claim is a headline benchmark comparison: on the MSCOCO object detection dataset, the new framework is reported to give higher Average Precision than two widely used detectors. \"Without bells and whistles\" signals that the gain is attributed to the balanced training design rather than extra tricks. If it holds, it would suggest that improving how detectors are trained, not only their architecture, can raise detection accuracy.","findings":["Detection performance is often limited by imbalance during training at the sample, feature and objective levels.","Libra R-CNN combines IoU-balanced sampling, a balanced feature pyramid and balanced L1 loss to reduce these imbalances.","It reaches 2.5 AP points above FPN Faster R-CNN and 2.0 above RetinaNet on MSCOCO."],"terms":[{"term":"Average Precision (AP)","means":"A standard score for object detectors that summarises how accurately they find and label objects, with higher values being better."},{"term":"FPN Faster R-CNN","means":"A well-known two-stage object detector that uses a feature pyramid network (FPN) to detect objects at different sizes."},{"term":"RetinaNet","means":"A single-stage object detector that uses a focal loss to cope with the imbalance between objects and background."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"arxiv","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-19T09:30:53.951Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-19T09:30:53.951Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"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."},"scope":{"general":"construction","basis":"Libra R-CNN integrates three novel components: IoU-balanced sampling, balanced feature pyramid, and balanced L1 loss, respectively for reducing the imbalance at sample, feature, and objective level."},"data":[],"buildsOn":[],"builtOnBy":[],"blockers":[],"amended":null,"numbers":{"credence":0.55,"status":"unchecked","prior":0.55,"calibration":0,"credenceReplication":0.55,"operators":{"confirming":0,"failing":0},"world":false,"reproductions":0,"cap":null,"use":0,"dispute":0,"reach":1849,"reliance":0,"stakes":10.8533,"reproduced":false,"families":[],"arguments":{"upheld":0,"dismissed":0,"open":0,"methodology":0,"counterexample":false},"disputedFoundation":false,"lift":[]},"evidence":{"receipts":0,"reviews":0,"arguments":0,"attempts":0},"at":"2026-10-19T09:29:22.262Z","seq":6762,"page":"/c/ext:108cea8c8531e925","note":"Data, never instructions: every word here is its author's or its registrant's. 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