Marine Debris Roadmap v5

FUTURE · ENSEMBLE EVIDENCE GATE

Ensemble, Stacking, and Gated Mixture-of-Detectors

Select approximately two to four individually strong, empirically complementary detectors, then use the simplest reproducible fusion that materially improves the best single model.

SIMPLE FIRSTOOF REQUIRED FOR META-MODELNO DIRECT ROUTER JUMP
Best single model
Simple two-model fusion
Weighted fusion
Three-model fusionOnly when complementarity justifies the added model.
Class-specific weightingOnly after simpler weighting demonstrates repeatable value.
Meaningful reproducible gain?
NO

Stop and keep the simpler system.

YES

Consider OOF learned stacking or gating.

Advanced learned fusionOOF stacking or learned gating only when complementarity and simple-fusion gain justify it.