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MMYOLO Alternative in 2026: Run RTMDet with LibreYOLO

Xuban

MMYOLO is not archived, but its latest release, version 0.6.0, dates to August 2023. If you only need a supported detector such as RTMDet, you may not need the full OpenMMLab stack.

from libreyolo import LibreYOLO

model = LibreYOLO("LibreRTMDets.pt")
result = model("image.jpg", save=True)
print(result.boxes.xyxy)

LibreYOLO is not a complete MMYOLO replacement. It does not reproduce every config, recipe or checkpoint. It does give supported families such as RTMDet and YOLOX a direct API for prediction, training, validation and export.

Start with pip install libreyolo. The RTMDet docs list the supported operations. The short RTMDet guide covers the migration.

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