Tianheng Cheng^2,3,*, Lin Song^1,📧,*, Yixiao Ge^1,🌟,2, Wenyu Liu³, Xinggang Wang^3,📧, Ying Shan^1,2

* Equal contribution 🌟 Project lead 📧 Corresponding author

¹ Tencent AI Lab, ² ARC Lab, Tencent PCG ³ Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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[2024-5-16]: Hey guys! Long time no see! This update contains (1) fine-tuning guide and (2) TFLite Export with INT8 Quantization.
[2024-5-9]: This update contains the real reparameterization 🪄, and it's better for fine-tuning on custom datasets and improves the training/inference efficiency 🚀!
[2024-4-28]: Long time no see! This update contains bugfixs and improvements: (1) ONNX demo; (2) image demo (support tensor input); (2) new pre-trained models; (3) image prompts; (4) simple version for fine-tuning / deployment; (5) guide for installation (include a requirements.txt).
[2024-3-28]: We provide: (1) more high-resolution pre-trained models (e.g., S, M, X) (#142); (2) pre-trained models with CLIP-Large text encoders. Most importantly, we preliminarily fix the fine-tuning without mask-refine and explore a new fine-tuning setting (#160,#76). In addition, fine-tuning YOLO-World with mask-refine also obtains significant improvements, check more details in configs/finetune_coco.
[2024-3-16]: We fix the bugs about the demo (#110,#94,#129, #125) with visualizations of segmentation masks, and release YOLO-World with Embeddings, which supports prompt tuning, text prompts and image prompts.
[2024-3-3]: We add the high-resolution YOLO-World, which supports 1280x1280 resolution with higher accuracy and better performance for small objects!
[2024-2-29]: We release the newest version of YOLO-World-v2 with higher accuracy and faster speed! We hope the community can join us to improve YOLO-World!
[2024-2-28]: Excited to announce that YOLO-World has been accepted by CVPR 2024! We're continuing to make YOLO-World faster and stronger, as well as making it better to use for all.
[2024-2-22]: We sincerely thank RoboFlow and @Skalskip92 for the Video Guide about YOLO-World, nice work!
[2024-2-18]: We thank @Skalskip92 for developing the wonderful segmentation demo via connecting YOLO-World and EfficientSAM. You can try it now at the 🤗 HuggingFace Spaces.
[2024-2-17]: The largest model X of YOLO-World is released, which achieves better zero-shot performance!
[2024-2-17]: We release the code & models for YOLO-World-Seg now! YOLO-World now supports open-vocabulary / zero-shot object segmentation!
[2024-2-15]: The pre-traind YOLO-World-L with CC3M-Lite is released!
[2024-2-14]: We provide the image_demo for inference on images or directories.
[2024-2-10]: We provide the fine-tuning and data details for fine-tuning YOLO-World on the COCO dataset or the custom datasets!
[2024-2-3]: We support the Gradio demo now in the repo and you can build the YOLO-World demo on your own device!
[2024-2-1]: We've released the code and weights of YOLO-World now!
[2024-2-1]: We deploy the YOLO-World demo on HuggingFace 🤗, you can try it now!
[2024-1-31]: We are excited to launch YOLO-World, a cutting-edge real-time open-vocabulary object detector.

YOLO-World is under active development and please stay tuned ☕️! If you have suggestions📃 or ideas💡,we would love for you to bring them up in the Roadmap ❤️!

YOLO-World 目前正在积极开发中📃，如果你有建议或者想法💡，我们非常希望您在 Roadmap 中提出来 ❤️！

We have set up an FAQ about YOLO-World in the discussion on GitHub. We hope everyone can raise issues or solutions during use here, and we also hope that everyone can quickly find solutions from it.

我们在GitHub的discussion中建立了关于YOLO-World的常见问答，这里将收集一些常见问题，同时大家可以在此提出使用中的问题或者解决方案，也希望大家能够从中快速寻找到解决方案

This repo contains the PyTorch implementation, pre-trained weights, and pre-training/fine-tuning code for YOLO-World.

• YOLO-World is pre-trained on large-scale datasets, including detection, grounding, and image-text datasets.

• YOLO-World is the next-generation YOLO detector, with a strong open-vocabulary detection capability and grounding ability.

• YOLO-World presents a prompt-then-detect paradigm for efficient user-vocabulary inference, which re-parameterizes vocabulary embeddings as parameters into the model and achieve superior inference speed. You can try to export your own detection model without extra training or fine-tuning in our online demo!

We've pre-trained YOLO-World-S/M/L from scratch and evaluate on the LVIS val-1.0 and LVIS minival. We provide the pre-trained model weights and training logs for applications/research or re-producing the results.

NOTE:

1. AP^mini: evaluated on LVIS minival.
2. AP^val: evaluated on LVIS val 1.0.
3. HuggingFace Mirror provides the mirror of HuggingFace, which is a choice for users who are unable to reach.
4. 🔸: fine-tuning models with the pre-trained data.

Pre-training Logs:

We provide the pre-training logs of YOLO-World-v2. Due to the unexpected errors of the local machines, the training might be interrupted several times.

YOLO-World is developed based on torch==1.11.0 mmyolo==0.6.0 and mmdetection==3.0.0. Check more details about requirements and mmcv in docs/installation.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/AILab-CVC/YOLO-World.git

pip install torch wheel -q
pip install -e .

We provide the details about the pre-training data in docs/data.

We adopt the default training or evaluation scripts of mmyolo. We provide the configs for pre-training and fine-tuning in configs/pretrain and configs/finetune_coco. Training YOLO-World is easy:

chmod +x tools/dist_train.sh
# sample command for pre-training, use AMP for mixed-precision training
./tools/dist_train.sh configs/pretrain/yolo_world_l_t2i_bn_2e-4_100e_4x8gpus_obj365v1_goldg_train_lvis_minival.py 8 --amp

NOTE: YOLO-World is pre-trained on 4 nodes with 8 GPUs per node (32 GPUs in total). For pre-training, the node_rank and nnodes for multi-node training should be specified.

Evaluating YOLO-World is also easy:

chmod +x tools/dist_test.sh
./tools/dist_test.sh path/to/config path/to/weights 8

NOTE: We mainly evaluate the performance on LVIS-minival for pre-training.

YOLO-World supports zero-shot inference, and three types of fine-tuning recipes: (1) normal fine-tuning, (2) prompt tuning, and (3) reparameterized fine-tuning.

• Normal Fine-tuning: we provide the details about fine-tuning YOLO-World in docs/fine-tuning.

• Prompt Tuning: we provide more details ahout prompt tuning in docs/prompt_yolo_world.

• Reparameterized Fine-tuning: the reparameterized YOLO-World is more suitable for specific domains far from generic scenes. You can find more details in docs/reparameterize.

We provide the details about deployment for downstream applications in docs/deployment. You can directly download the ONNX model through the online demo in Huggingface Spaces 🤗.

• ONNX export and demo: docs/deploy
• TFLite and INT8 Quantization: docs/tflite_deploy
• TensorRT: coming soon.
• C++: coming soon.

See demo for more details

• gradio_demo.py: Gradio demo, ONNX export
• image_demo.py: inference with images or a directory of images
• simple_demo.py: a simple demo of YOLO-World, using array (instead of path as input).
• video_demo.py: inference YOLO-World on videos.
• inference.ipynb: jupyter notebook for YOLO-World.
• Google Colab Notebook: We sincerely thank Onuralp for sharing the Colab Demo, you can have a try 😊！

We sincerely thank mmyolo, mmdetection, GLIP, and transformers for providing their wonderful code to the community!

If you find YOLO-World is useful in your research or applications, please consider giving us a star 🌟 and citing it.

@inproceedings{Cheng2024YOLOWorld,
  title={YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection},
  author={Cheng, Tianheng and Song, Lin and Ge, Yixiao and Liu, Wenyu and Wang, Xinggang and Shan, Ying},
  booktitle={Proc. IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year={2024}
}

YOLO-World is under the GPL-v3 Licence and is supported for commercial usage. If you need a commercial license for YOLO-World, please feel free to contact us.