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RF-DETR is a real-time object detection and segmentation model architecture developed by Roboflow, SOTA on COCO, designed for fine-tuning. [ICLR 2026]
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# RF-DETR: Real-Time SOTA Object Detection, Instance Segmentation, and Keypoint Detection
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RF-DETR is a real-time transformer architecture for object detection, instance segmentation, and keypoint detection (preview) developed by Roboflow. Built on a DINOv2 vision transformer backbone (a PE-Core-T backbone for Atto, Femto and Pico), RF-DETR delivers state-of-the-art accuracy and latency trade-offs on [Microsoft COCO](https://cocodataset.org/#home) and [RF100-VL](https://github.com/roboflow/rf100-vl).
RF-DETR supports object detection, instance segmentation, and keypoint detection (preview) in a single, consistent API.
**Commercially usable under Apache 2.0.** The `rfdetr` package, RF-DETR Nano, Small, Medium and Large detection, every RF-DETR-Seg size (Nano through 2XLarge), and RF-DETR Keypoint are released under the Apache 2.0 license, so they're commercially usable out of the box: you can ship them in closed-source, commercial products, including self-hosted deployments, without paying a license fee or open-sourcing your code. RF-DETR Atto, Femto, Pico, XL and 2XL detection ship in the optional `rfdetr[plus]` extension under the [Roboflow Platform Model License (PML 1.0)](https://github.com/roboflow/rf-detr_plus/blob/main/LICENSE): commercial use is included when you deploy on Roboflow, and commercial self-hosting requires the Enterprise add-on. See [License](#license).
The published RF-DETR sizes were created with neural architecture search (NAS) — and the same NAS method is now available on the [Roboflow platform](https://app.roboflow.com/), so you can discover the best architecture for your own dataset. Learn more in the [NAS docs](https://docs.roboflow.com/train/neural-architecture-search).
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## Install
To install RF-DETR, install the `rfdetr` package in a [**Python>=3.10**](https://www.python.org/) environment with `pip`.
```bash
pip install rfdetr
```
`pip install rfdetr` gives you only Apache 2.0 RF-DETR code and models, so it's commercially usable out of the box. `pip install "rfdetr[plus]"` adds the Atto, Femto, Pico, XL and 2XL detection models under PML 1.0 (commercial use included on Roboflow; commercial self-hosting requires the Enterprise add-on). See [License](#license).
<details>
<summary>Install from source</summary>
<br>
By installing RF-DETR from source, you can explore the most recent features and enhancements that have not yet been officially released. **Please note that these updates are still in development and may not be as stable as the latest published release.**
```bash
pip install https://github.com/roboflow/rf-detr/archive/refs/heads/develop.zip
```
</details>
## Benchmarks
RF-DETR achieves state-of-the-art results in both object detection and instance segmentation, with benchmarks reported on Microsoft COCO and RF100-VL (RF100-VL for detection only). The charts and tables below compare RF-DETR against other top real-time models across accuracy and latency for detection and segmentation. All COCO accuracy numbers are measured in-house for every model shown, computed with pycocotools in SAB over the full 5,000-image `val2017` split, so every row is directly comparable and may differ from vendor-reported figures. The sole exception is rows marked †, which are quoted from the original authors' paper and were not measured in SAB. All latency numbers were measured on an NVIDIA T4 using TensorRT, FP16, and batch size 1. Parameter counts are deployment (fused) `nn.Module` parameter counts (`model.parameters()`, not the raw tensor count of the saved checkpoint), except rows marked †, which are the authors' reported counts. For full benchmarking methodology and reproducibility details, see [roboflow/sab](https://github.com/roboflow/single_artifact_benchmarking).
> **License note:** YOLOv8, YOLO11 and YOLO26 are released under AGPL-3.0. In practice, using them in a commercial product or service, including one users reach over a network, means open-sourcing your application code under AGPL-3.0 or buying a commercial license. Deploying on Roboflow includes a commercial license for these models for every user; commercial self-hosting is an Enterprise add-on ([details](https://roboflow.com/ultralytics)). RF-DETR rows marked Apache 2.0 are commercially usable out of the box; rows marked PML 1.0 include commercial use on Roboflow, and commercial self-hosting requires the Enterprise add-on. LW-DETR and D-FINE are Apache 2.0.
### Detection
<img alt="rf_detr_1-4_latency_accuracy_object_detection" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/com-roboflow-marketing/rf-detr/rf_detr_1-4_latency_accuracy_object_detection.png" />
<details>
<summary>See object detection benchmark numbers</summary>
<br>
| Architecture | COCO AP<sub>50</sub> | COCO AP<sub>50:95</sub> | RF100VL AP<sub>50</sub> | RF100VL AP<sub>50:95</sub> | Latency (ms) | Params (M) | Resolution | License |
| :-----------: | :------------------: | :---------------------: | :---------------------: | :------------------------: | :----------: | :--------: | :--------: | :--------: |
| RF-DETR-A △ | 49.4 | 30.5 | 78.2 | 48.3 | 1.0 | 7.4 | 380x380 | PML 1.0 |
| RF-DETR-F △ | 55.9 | 37.8 | 82.5 | 53.8 | 1.4 | 7.9 | 384x384 | PML 1.0 |
| RF-DETR-P △ | 60.2 | 41.6 | 84.1 | 56.0 | 1.7 | 8.4 | 560x560 | PML 1.0 |
| RF-DETR-N | 67.6 | 48.4 | 85.0 | 57.7 | 2.3 | 30.5 | 384x384 | Apache 2.0 |
| RF-DETR-S | 72.1 | 53.0 | 86.7 | 60.2 | 3.5 | 32.1 | 512x512 | Apache 2.0 |
| RF-DETR-M | 73.6 | 54.7 | 87.4 | 61.2 | 4.4 | 33.7 | 576x576 | Apache 2.0 |
| RF-DETR-L | 75.1 | 56.5 | 88.2 | 62.2 | 6.8 | 33.9 | 704x704 | Apache 2.0 |
| RF-DETR-XL △ | 77.4 | 58.6 | 88.5 | 62.9 | 11.5 | 126.4 | 700x700 | PML 1.0 |
| RF-DETR-2XL △ | 78.5 | 60.1 | 89.0 | 63.2 | 17.2 | 126.9 | 880x880 | PML 1.0 |
| YOLO11-N | 52.0 | 37.4 | 81.4 | 55.3 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO11-S | 59.7 | 44.4 | 82.3 | 56.2 | 3.2 | 9.4 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO11-M | 64.1 | 48.6 | 82.5 | 56.5 | 5.1 | 20.1 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO11-L | 64.9 | 49.9 | 82.2 | 56.5 | 6.5 | 25.3 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO11-X | 66.1 | 50.9 | 81.7 | 56.2 | 10.5 | 56.9 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-N | 55.8 | 40.3 | 76.7 | 52.0 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-S | 64.3 | 47.7 | 82.7 | 57.0 | 2.6 | 9.4 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-M | 69.7 | 52.5 | 84.4 | 58.7 | 4.4 | 20.1 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-L | 71.1 | 54.1 | 85.0 | 59.3 | 5.7 | 25.3 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-X | 74.0 | 56.9 | 85.6 | 60.0 | 9.6 | 56.9 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| LW-DETR-T | 60.7 | 42.9 | 84.7 | 57.1 | 1.9 | 12.1 | 640x640 | Apache 2.0 |
| LW-DETR-S | 66.8 | 48.0 | 85.0 | 57.4 | 2.6 | 14.6 | 640x640 | Apache 2.0 |
| LW-DETR-M | 72.0 | 52.6 | 86.8 | 59.8 | 4.4 | 28.2 | 640x640 | Apache 2.0 |
| LW-DETR-L | 74.6 | 56.1 | 87.4 | 61.5 | 6.9 | 46.8 | 640x640 | Apache 2.0 |
| LW-DETR-X | 76.9 | 58.3 | 87.9 | 62.1 | 13.0 | 118.0 | 640x640 | Apache 2.0 |
| D-FINE-N | 60.2 | 42.7 | 84.4 | 58.2 | 2.1 | 3.8 | 640x640 | Apache 2.0 |
| D-FINE-S | 67.6 | 50.6 | 85.3 | 60.3 | 3.5 | 10.2 | 640x640 | Apache 2.0 |
| D-FINE-M | 72.6 | 55.0 | 85.5 | 60.6 | 5.4 | 19.2 | 640x640 | Apache 2.0 |
| D-FINE-L | 74.9 | 57.2 | 86.4 | 61.6 | 7.5 | 31.0 | 640x640 | Apache 2.0 |
| D-FINE-X | 76.8 | 59.3 | 86.9 | 62.2 | 11.5 | 62.0 | 640x640 | Apache 2.0 |
| SAM 3 † | — | — | — | 61.6 | — | ~850 | 1008x1008 | N/A |
> † Reported by the SAM 3 authors ([arXiv:2511.16719](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16719), Table 36), **not** measured by us in SAB. The value is SAM 3 fine-tuned on the full RF100-VL training set, which is the same setting as the RF100VL columns above — SAM 3's paper reports LW-DETR-m at 59.8 on this benchmark, matching our own measurement, so the numbers line up. Dashes mark results SAM 3 does not report under this protocol. Parameter count is the paper's stated ~850 M (~450 M vision + ~300 M text encoders + ~100 M detector/tracker).
</details>
### Segmentation
<img alt="rf_detr_1-4_latency_accuracy_instance_segmentation" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/com-roboflow-marketing/rf-detr/rf_detr_1-4_latency_accuracy_instance_segmentation.png" />
<details>
<summary>See instance segmentation benchmark numbers</summary>
<br>
| Architecture | COCO AP<sub>50</sub> | COCO AP<sub>50:95</sub> | Latency (ms) | Params (M) | Resolution | License |
| :-------------: | :------------------: | :---------------------: | :----------: | :--------: | :--------: | :--------: |
| RF-DETR-Seg-N | 63.0 | 40.3 | 3.4 | 33.6 | 312x312 | Apache 2.0 |
| RF-DETR-Seg-S | 66.2 | 43.1 | 4.4 | 33.7 | 384x384 | Apache 2.0 |
| RF-DETR-Seg-M | 68.4 | 45.3 | 5.9 | 35.7 | 432x432 | Apache 2.0 |
| RF-DETR-Seg-L | 70.5 | 47.1 | 8.8 | 36.2 | 504x504 | Apache 2.0 |
| RF-DETR-Seg-XL | 72.2 | 48.8 | 13.5 | 38.1 | 624x624 | Apache 2.0 |
| RF-DETR-Seg-2XL | 73.1 | 49.9 | 21.8 | 38.6 | 768x768 | Apache 2.0 |
| YOLOv8-N-Seg | 45.6 | 28.3 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLOv8-S-Seg | 53.8 | 34.0 | 4.2 | 11.8 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLOv8-M-Seg | 58.2 | 37.3 | 7.0 | 27.3 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLOv8-L-Seg | 60.5 | 39.0 | 9.7 | 46.0 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLOv8-XL-Seg | 61.3 | 39.5 | 14.0 | 71.8 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLOv11-N-Seg | 47.8 | 30.0 | 3.6 | 2.9 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLOv11-S-Seg | 55.4 | 35.0 | 4.6 | 10.1 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLOv11-M-Seg | 60.0 | 38.5 | 6.9 | 22.4 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLOv11-L-Seg | 61.5 | 39.5 | 8.3 | 27.6 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLOv11-XL-Seg | 62.4 | 40.1 | 13.7 | 62.1 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-N-Seg | 54.3 | 34.7 | 2.31 | 2.7 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-S-Seg | 62.4 | 40.2 | 3.47 | 10.4 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-M-Seg | 67.8 | 44.0 | 6.32 | 23.6 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-L-Seg | 69.8 | 45.5 | 7.58 | 28.0 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-X-Seg | 71.6 | 46.8 | 12.92 | 62.8 | 640x640 | AGPL-3.0 |
</details>
### Keypoints
<img alt="RF-DETR Keypoint mAP vs latency chart comparing against YOLO26-pose and YOLO11-pose on MS COCO" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roboflow/rf-detr/develop/docs/assets/keypoints/kp-map-latency.png" />
<details>
<summary>See keypoint detection benchmark numbers</summary>
<br>
| Architecture | COCO AP<sub>50:95</sub> | Latency (ms) | Params (M) | License |
| :------------------------: | :---------------------: | :----------: | :--------: | :--------: |
| RF-DETR Keypoint (Preview) | 71.8 | 9.7 | 40.7 | Apache 2.0 |
| YOLO11-pose N | 48.9 | 3.2 | 2.9 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO11-pose S | 57.5 | 3.4 | 9.9 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO11-pose M | 64.2 | 5.2 | 20.9 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO11-pose L | 65.2 | 6.6 | 26.2 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO11-pose X | 68.6 | 10.6 | 58.8 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-pose N | 55.9 | 1.9 | 2.9 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-pose S | 62.0 | 2.7 | 10.4 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-pose M | 68.0 | 4.6 | 21.5 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-pose L | 69.2 | 5.9 | 25.9 | AGPL-3.0 |
| YOLO26-pose X | 71.0 | 9.8 | 57.6 | AGPL-3.0 |
</details>
> Keypoint benchmarks report AP<sub>50:95</sub> (OKS-based); this is the standard COCO keypoint comparison metric.
### NAS on the Roboflow Platform
<img alt="RF100-VL accuracy-latency Pareto chart showing RF-DETR NAS trained on the Roboflow platform outperforming the paper NAS and named configs" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roboflow/rf-detr/develop/docs/assets/nas_two_source_comparison_100_test_only.svg" />
Since the paper release, we have improved RF-DETR NAS training on the Roboflow platform even further. A single training run gives you every model size, with results that beat not only the open-source checkpoints but also our own paper NAS results. [Try it now!](https://roboflow.com/)
## Run Models
### Detection
RF-DETR provides multiple model sizes, ranging from Nano to 2XLarge. To use a different model size, replace the class name in the code snippet below with another class from the table.
```python
import supervision as sv
from rfdetr import RFDETRMedium
from rfdetr.assets.coco_classes import COCO_CLASSES
model = RFDETRMedium()
detections = model.predict("https://media.roboflow.com/dog.jpg", threshold=0.5)
labels = [f"{COCO_CLASSES[class_id]}" for class_id in detections.class_id]
annotated_image = sv.BoxAnnotator().annotate(detections.metadata["source_image"], detections)
annotated_image = sv.LabelAnnotator().annotate(annotated_image, detections, labels)
```
> **Note:** `COCO_CLASSES` works for COCO-pretrained models. For fine-tuned models, use `detections.data["class_name"]` instead — it resolves class names from the checkpoint and works for both COCO and custom datasets.
<details>
<summary>Run RF-DETR with Inference</summary>
<br>
You can also run RF-DETR models using the Inference library. To switch model size, select the appropriate inference package alias from the table below.
```python
import requests
import supervision as sv
from PIL import Image
from inference import get_model
model = get_model("rfdetr-medium")
image = Image.open(requests.get("https://media.roboflow.com/dog.jpg", stream=True).raw)
predictions = model.infer(image, confidence=0.5)[0]
detections = sv.Detections.from_inference(predictions)
annotated_image = sv.BoxAnnotator().annotate(image, detections)
annotated_image = sv.LabelAnnotator().annotate(annotated_image, detections)
```
</details>
| Size | RF-DETR package class | Inference package alias | COCO AP<sub>50</sub> | COCO AP<sub>50:95</sub> | Latency (ms) | Params (M) | Resolution | License |
| :--: | :-------------------: | :---------------------- | :------------------: | :---------------------: | :----------: | :--------: | :--------: | :--------: |
| A | `RFDETRAtto` △ | `rfdetr-atto` | 49.4 | 30.5 | 1.0 | 7.4 | 380x380 | PML 1.0 |
| F | `RFDETRFemto` △ | `rfdetr-femto` | 55.9 | 37.8 | 1.4 | 7.9 | 384x384 | PML 1.0 |
| P | `RFDETRPico` △ | `rfdetr-pico` | 60.2 | 41.6 | 1.7 | 8.4 | 560x560 | PML 1.0 |
| N | `RFDETRNano` | `rfdetr-nano` | 67.6 | 48.4 | 2.3 | 30.5 | 384x384 | Apache 2.0 |
| S | `RFDETRSmall` | `rfdetr-small` | 72.1 | 53.0 | 3.5 | 32.1 | 512x512 | Apache 2.0 |
| M | `RFDETRMedium` | `rfdetr-medium` | 73.6 | 54.7 | 4.4 | 33.7 | 576x576 | Apache 2.0 |
| L | `RFDETRLarge` | `rfdetr-large` | 75.1 | 56.5 | 6.8 | 33.9 | 704x704 | Apache 2.0 |
| XL | `RFDETRXLarge` △ | `rfdetr-xlarge` | 77.4 | 58.6 | 11.5 | 126.4 | 700x700 | PML 1.0 |
| 2XL | `RFDETR2XLarge` △ | `rfdetr-2xlarge` | 78.5 | 60.1 | 17.2 | 126.9 | 880x880 | PML 1.0 |
> △ Requires the `rfdetr_plus` extension: `pip install rfdetr[plus]`. See [License](#license) for details.
### Segmentation
RF-DETR supports instance segmentation with model sizes from Nano to 2XLarge. To use a different model size, replace the class name in the code snippet below with another class from the table.
```python
import supervision as sv
from rfdetr import RFDETRSegMedium
from rfdetr.assets.coco_classes import COCO_CLASSES
model = RFDETRSegMedium()
detections = model.predict("https://media.roboflow.com/dog.jpg", threshold=0.5)
labels = [f"{COCO_CLASSES[class_id]}" for class_id in detections.class_id]
annotated_image = sv.MaskAnnotator().annotate(detections.metadata["source_image"], detections)
annotated_image = sv.LabelAnnotator().annotate(annotated_image, detections, labels)
```
<details>
<summary>Run RF-DETR-Seg with Inference</summary>
<br>
You can also run RF-DETR-Seg models using the Inference library. To switch model size, select the appropriate inference package alias from the table below.
```python
import requests
import supervision as sv
from PIL import Image
from inference import get_model
model = get_model("rfdetr-seg-medium")
image = Image.open(requests.get("https://media.roboflow.com/dog.jpg", stream=True).raw)
predictions = model.infer(image, confidence=0.5)[0]
detections = sv.Detections.from_inference(predictions)
annotated_image = sv.MaskAnnotator().annotate(image, detections)
annotated_image = sv.LabelAnnotator().annotate(annotated_image, detections)
```
</details>
| Size | RF-DETR package class | Inference package alias | COCO AP<sub>50</sub> | COCO AP<sub>50:95</sub> | Latency (ms) | Params (M) | Resolution | License |
| :--: | :-------------------: | :---------------------- | :------------------: | :---------------------: | :----------: | :--------: | :--------: | :--------: |
| N | `RFDETRSegNano` | `rfdetr-seg-nano` | 63.0 | 40.3 | 3.4 | 33.6 | 312x312 | Apache 2.0 |
| S | `RFDETRSegSmall` | `rfdetr-seg-small` | 66.2 | 43.1 | 4.4 | 33.7 | 384x384 | Apache 2.0 |
| M | `RFDETRSegMedium` | `rfdetr-seg-medium` | 68.4 | 45.3 | 5.9 | 35.7 | 432x432 | Apache 2.0 |
| L | `RFDETRSegLarge` | `rfdetr-seg-large` | 70.5 | 47.1 | 8.8 | 36.2 | 504x504 | Apache 2.0 |
| XL | `RFDETRSegXLarge` | `rfdetr-seg-xlarge` | 72.2 | 48.8 | 13.5 | 38.1 | 624x624 | Apache 2.0 |
| 2XL | `RFDETRSeg2XLarge` | `rfdetr-seg-2xlarge` | 73.1 | 49.9 | 21.8 | 38.6 | 768x768 | Apache 2.0 |
### Keypoints
RF-DETR supports keypoint detection (preview) with `RFDETRKeypointPreview`, pretrained on COCO person keypoints.
```python
from rfdetr import RFDETRKeypointPreview
model = RFDETRKeypointPreview()
key_points = model.predict("image.jpg", threshold=0.5)
```
| Size | RF-DETR package class | COCO AP<sub>50:95</sub> | Latency (ms) | Params (M) | Resolution | License |
| :----------------: | :---------------------: | :---------------------: | :----------: | :--------: | :--------: | :--------: |
| Keypoint (Preview) | `RFDETRKeypointPreview` | 71.8 | 9.7 | 40.7 | 576x576 | Apache 2.0 |
### Train Models
RF-DETR supports training for object detection, instance segmentation, and keypoint detection (preview). You can train models in [Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/github/roboflow-ai/notebooks/blob/main/notebooks/how-to-finetune-rf-detr-on-detection-dataset.ipynb) or directly on the Roboflow platform. Below you will find a step-by-step video fine-tuning tutorial.
[](https://youtu.be/-OvpdLAElFA)
## Documentation
Visit our [documentation website](https://rfdetr.roboflow.com) to learn more about how to use RF-DETR.
## License
RF-DETR is commercially usable. Licensing is split by component:
| Component | License | What it means in practice |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `rfdetr` package (training, inference and export code) | [Apache 2.0](LICENSE) | Commercially usable out of the box: you can ship it in closed-source, commercial products, including self-hosted deployments, without paying a license fee or open-sourcing your code. |
| RF-DETR Nano, Small, Medium and Large detection | Apache 2.0 | Same as above. |
| RF-DETR-Seg, every size (Nano through 2XLarge) | Apache 2.0 | Same as above. |
| RF-DETR Keypoint (Preview) | Apache 2.0 | Same as above. |
| RF-DETR Atto, Femto, Pico, XL and 2XL detection (`rfdetr[plus]`), and RF-DETR NAS models | [Roboflow Platform Model License (PML 1.0)](https://github.com/roboflow/rf-detr_plus/blob/main/LICENSE) | Commercial use is included when you deploy on Roboflow; commercial self-hosting requires the Enterprise add-on ([details](https://roboflow.com/licensing)). |
## Acknowledgements
Our work is built upon [LW-DETR](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.03459), [DINOv2](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.07193), and [Deformable DETR](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.04159). Thanks to their authors for their excellent work!
## Citation
If you find our work helpful for your research, please consider citing the following BibTeX entry.
```bibtex
@inproceedings{robinson2026rfdetr,
title = {RF-DETR: Real-Time Detection Transformer},
author = {Robinson, Isaac and Robicheaux, Peter and Popov, Matvei and Ramanan, Deva and Peri, Neehar},
booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
year = {2026},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09554}
}
```
## Contribute
We welcome and appreciate all contributions! If you notice any issues or bugs, have questions, or would like to suggest new features, please [open an issue](https://github.com/roboflow/rf-detr/issues/new) or pull request. By sharing your ideas and improvements, you help make RF-DETR better for everyone.
## Project Activity
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PyPI downloads cover completed Monday-to-Sunday periods and exclude known mirrors. New stars are calculated from consecutive scheduled GitHub snapshots.
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