different mAP for ssd_mobilenet_v2_fpnlite_320x320_coco17 after training from scratch

[altair199797]

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1. The entire URL of the documentation with the issue

https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/object_detection/g3doc/tf2_detection_zoo.md

2. Describe the issue

I have retrained the model with: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/object_detection/configs/tf2/ssd_mobilenet_v2_fpnlite_320x320_coco17_tpu-8.config

However I can't reach more than a mAP of 19%, compared to the mAP of 22.2 % reported on the modelzoo. I also trained on coco2017. The config file from above features a initial learning rate of 0.08, could that be too low? Or are the number of steps too few? Because in the config file the fine_tune_checkpoint attribute is still present.

[dsnsabari]

@tombstone, any updates on this issue?