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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":"W2951559372","title":"CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module","authors":["Sanghyun Woo","Jongchan Park","Joon‐Young Lee","In So Kweon"],"authorCount":4,"venue":"arXiv (Cornell University)","year":2018,"type":"preprint","citedBy":336,"keywords":["spatial attention","image classification","channel attention","CBAM","object detection","attention mechanism"],"topic":{"topic":"Advanced Neural Network Applications","subfield":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition","field":"Computer Science","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-10T18:46:25.464Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"The CBAM attention module is lightweight and general, so it can be added to any CNN architecture with negligible overheads and trained end-to-end with the base network.","did":"The authors designed an attention module and added it to various CNN models. They tested it on ImageNet-1K for classification and on MS COCO and VOC 2007 for object detection.","gist":"The paper proposes CBAM, a simple attention module for convolutional neural networks, and reports consistent gains in image classification and object detection across several models and datasets.","meaning":"The claim says CBAM is a plug-in component: it can be placed inside existing image-recognition networks without redesigning them or adding much computation. It can also be trained in a single pass together with the rest of the network, with no separate training stage. 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