YOLO26实现无NMS端到端实时检测,精度与速度双突破。
Ultralytics YOLO26: Unified Real-Time End-to-End Vision Models

- 双头结构实现无NMS端到端推理,移除DFL使检测头更轻量。
- 在COCO上达40.9-57.5 mAP,T4 TensorRT延迟1.7-11.8毫秒。
- 支持检测、分割、姿态等多任务,适合部署于多样硬件场景。
实时视觉需求模型兼具高精度、高效率与易部署性。尽管YOLO系列已广泛应用,但多数仍依赖推理时的非极大值抑制(NMS),因分布焦点损失(DFL)导致检测头沉重,训练周期长,且小目标常无正样本分配。本文提出Ultralytics YOLO26,通过协同架构与训练改进解决上述问题。其采用双头设计实现原生无NMS端到端推理,完全移除DFL,使检测头更轻量且回归范围无约束。训练流程融合MuSGD(源自大语言模型训练的混合μ子-SGD优化器)、渐进式损失(将监督逐步转向推理头)与STAL标签分配策略(确保小目标有正样本覆盖)。除检测外,YOLO26还为实例分割、姿态估计与方向检测设计专用头与损失,实现跨任务与尺度的一致提升。该模型家族涵盖五种尺度(n/s/m/l/x),支持检测、实例分割、姿态估计、分类及方向检测单一流程,另推出开放词汇扩展版YOLOE-26,支持文本、视觉与提示自由推理。所有尺度在COCO上达到40.9–57.5 mAP,T4 TensorRT延迟1.7–11.8毫秒,超越现有实时检测器的精度-延迟权衡;YOLOE-26x在LVIS minival上达40.6 AP(文本提示下)。代码与模型开源:https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Real-time vision demands models that are accurate, efficient, and simple to deploy across diverse hardware. The YOLO family has become widely deployed for this reason, yet most YOLO detectors still rely on non-maximum suppression at inference, carry heavy detection heads due to Distribution Focal Loss, require long training schedules, and can leave the smallest objects without positive label assignments. We present Ultralytics YOLO26, a unified real-time vision model family that addresses these limitations through coordinated architecture and training advances. YOLO26 uses a dual-head design for native NMS-free end-to-end inference and removes DFL entirely, yielding a lighter head with unconstrained regression range. Its training pipeline combines MuSGD, a hybrid Muon-SGD optimizer adapted from large language model training; Progressive Loss, which shifts supervision toward the inference-time head; and STAL, a label assignment strategy that guarantees positive coverage for small objects. Beyond detection, YOLO26 introduces task-specific head and loss designs for instance segmentation, pose estimation, and oriented detection, producing consistent gains across tasks and scales. The family spans five scales (n/s/m/l/x) and supports detection, instance segmentation, pose estimation, classification, and oriented detection in a single pipeline, with an open-vocabulary extension, YOLOE-26, for text-, visual-, and prompt-free inference. Across all scales, YOLO26 achieves 40.9-57.5 mAP on COCO at 1.7-11.8 ms T4 TensorRT latency, advancing the accuracy-latency Pareto front over prior real-time detectors, while YOLOE-26x reaches 40.6 AP on LVIS minival under text prompting. Code and models are available at https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics.
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