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YOLO-World

Open-vocabulary detection at YOLO speed.

currentTencent ↗Verified 2026-08-13

Real time

open vocabulary

Specifications

COCO mAP~46 zero-shot
SpeedHigh
LicenceGPL-3.0
FamilyOpen vocabulary
Open vocabularyYes
Released2024

Official links

Tencent official site

What matters

  • The speed of YOLO with text-defined classes
  • Weaker than Grounding DINO on hard prompts

Best for prompted detection that has to be fast.

Compare with

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YOLO-World vs RF-DETR →YOLO-World vs YOLO26 →YOLO-World vs YOLOv12 →YOLO-World vs RTMDet →YOLO-World vs Grounding DINO →

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RF-DETR · RoboflowYOLO26 · UltralyticsYOLOv12 · UltralyticsRTMDet · OpenMMLabGrounding DINO · IDEA Research