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RF-DETR: SOTA Vision Model

In early 2025, we released RF-DETR, a state-of-the-art real-time object detection model. The first to achieve real-time 60+ mAP on COCO. Open-source, Apache 2.0 license.

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Yann LeCun

Chief AI Scientist at Meta

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RF-DETR: DINOv2 pretrained encoder + multiscale DETR architecture = SOTA on fast object detection. @nicolas.carion

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Nick Urena

Machine Learning Engineer @ USC

We benchmarked RF-DETR vs the YOLO models we were using for our industrial use cases. We're migrating to RF-DETR in every place we can given seeing its superior performance.

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Merve Noyan

Open-sourceress at Hugging Face 🤗

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do not sleep on RF-DETR 🔥 it's a sota, real-time and most importantly, open-source object detector released by @roboflow @skalskip92. my vibe tests on very noisy images and videos have passed 👏 currently being integrated to transformers 🤗

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