# CSP DarkNet

**CSPDarknet53** is a convolutional neural network and backbone for object detection that uses [DarkNet-53](https://paperswithcode.com/method/darknet-53). It employs a CSPNet strategy to partition the feature map of the base layer into two parts and then merges them through a cross-stage hierarchy. The use of a split and merge strategy allows for more gradient flow through the network. 

This CNN is used as the backbone for [YOLOv4](https://paperswithcode.com/method/yolov4).

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## How do I train this model?

You can follow the [timm recipe scripts](https://rwightman.github.io/pytorch-image-models/scripts/) for training a new model afresh.

## Citation

```BibTeX
@misc{bochkovskiy2020yolov4,
      title={YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection}, 
      author={Alexey Bochkovskiy and Chien-Yao Wang and Hong-Yuan Mark Liao},
      year={2020},
      eprint={2004.10934},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
```

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    Batch Size: 128
    Training Data:
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    Training Techniques:
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    - Label Smoothing
    - Mosaic
    - Polynomial Learning Rate Decay
    - SGD with Momentum
    - Self-Adversarial Training
    - Weight Decay
    Training Resources: 1x NVIDIA RTX 2070 GPU
    Architecture:
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    - Batch Normalization
    - Convolution
    - Global Average Pooling
    - Mish
    - Residual Connection
    - Softmax
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    Tasks:
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    LR: 0.1
    Layers: 53
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    Image Size: '256'
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