**NoisyNet-DQN** is a modification of a [DQN](https://paperswithcode.com/method/dqn) that utilises noisy linear layers for exploration instead of $\epsilon$-greedy exploration as in the original DQN formulation.

Fast-OCR is a new lightweight detection network that incorporates features from existing models focused on the speed/accuracy trade-off, such as [YOLOv2](https://paperswithcode.com/method/yolov2), [CR-NET](https://paperswithcode.com/method/cr-net), and Fast-[YOLOv4](https://paperswithcode.com/method/yolov4).

Fast-OCR

Towards Image-based Automatic Meter Reading in Unconstrained Scenarios: A Robust and Efficient Approach

NoisyNet-DQN

Noisy Networks for Exploration

A **Feature Pyramid Network**, or **FPN**, is a feature extractor that takes a single-scale image of an arbitrary size as input, and outputs proportionally sized feature maps at multiple levels, in a fully convolutional fashion. This process is independent of the backbone convolutional architectures. It therefore acts as a generic solution for building feature pyramids inside deep convolutional networks to be used in tasks like object detection.

The construction of the pyramid involves a bottom-up pathway and a top-down pathway.

The bottom-up pathway is the feedforward computation of the backbone ConvNet, which computes a feature hierarchy consisting of feature maps at several scales with a scaling step of 2. For the feature
pyramid, one pyramid level is defined for each stage. The output of the last layer of each stage is used as a reference set of feature maps. For [ResNets](https://paperswithcode.com/method/resnet) we use the feature activations output by each stage’s last [residual block](https://paperswithcode.com/method/residual-block). 

The top-down pathway hallucinates higher resolution features by upsampling spatially coarser, but semantically stronger, feature maps from higher pyramid levels. These features are then enhanced with features from the bottom-up pathway via lateral connections. Each lateral connection merges feature maps of the same spatial size from the bottom-up pathway and the top-down pathway. The bottom-up feature map is of lower-level semantics, but its activations are more accurately localized as it was subsampled fewer times.

Source	Noisy Networks for Exploration
Year	2000
Data Source	CC BY-SA - https://paperswithcode.com