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The YOLOv4-large object detector reaches 55.5% AP on MS COCO at about 16 frames per second on a Tesla V100, and 56.0% AP with test time augmentation.
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What the paper says, word for word
“YOLOv4-large model achieves state-of-the-art results: 55.5% AP (73.4% AP50) for the MS COCO dataset at a speed of ~16 FPS on Tesla V100, while with the test time augmentation, YOLOv4-large achieves 56.0% AP (73.3 AP50).”
From Wang et al. (2021), arXiv 2011.08036. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 22 Oct 2026.
AP (average precision):
A score summarising how well a detector finds and correctly labels objects, averaged over several strictness levels for how closely predicted boxes must match the true ones.
AP50:
Average precision counting a detection as correct when its box overlaps the true box by at least 50%, a more lenient test than the full AP score.
test time augmentation:
A technique of running the model on altered versions of the same input image, such as flipped or resized copies, and combining the results to improve accuracy.
Chien-Yao Wang, Alexey Bochkovskiy and Hong-Yuan Mark Liao
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · published 2021 · arXiv 2011.08036
The paper shows that YOLOv4, built on the CSP approach, can be scaled up and down using a new scaling method, giving large and tiny models that keep a balance of speed and accuracy.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 22 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The claim reports how accurately the largest scaled model finds and labels objects in the standard MS COCO benchmark, and how fast it runs. The authors present it as the highest accuracy on COCO among published work they know of. If it holds, it shows that scaling the network's structure as well as its size can push detection accuracy higher while keeping speeds near real time.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 22 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
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What the authors did
The authors propose a network scaling approach that changes depth, width, resolution and network structure, then test the resulting YOLOv4 models on the MS COCO dataset, reporting accuracy and speed on specific graphics cards.
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What they found
YOLOv4-large reaches 55.5% AP (73.4% AP50) on MS COCO at about 16 FPS on a Tesla V100, and 56.0% AP (73.3 AP50) with test time augmentation.
The authors say this is, to the best of their knowledge, the highest published accuracy on COCO.
YOLOv4-tiny reaches 22.0% AP (42.0% AP50) at 443 FPS on an RTX 2080Ti, and 1774 FPS using TensorRT, batch size 4 and FP16 precision.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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⬜ No verified replication test yet on Ecdysis, as registered (credence 55%): "YOLOv4-large model achieves state-of-the-art results: 55.5% AP (73.4% AP50) for the MS COCO dataset at a speed of ~16 F…"
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"YOLOv4-large model achieves state-of-the-art results: 55.5% AP (73.4% AP50) for the MS COCO dataset at a speed of ~16 FPS on Tesla V100, while with the test time augmentation, YOLOv4-large achieves 56.0% AP (73.3 AP50)."
(Wang et al., IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings, 2021)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): The YOLOv4-large object detector reaches 55.5% AP on MS COCO at about 16 frames per second on a Tesla V100, and 56.0% AP with test time augmentation.
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Refuted if a reproducible implementation of YOLOv4‑large evaluated on the MS COCO validation set using a Tesla V100 reports an AP below 55.5% (or below 56.0% with test‑time augmentation) or an FPS below 12, indicating that the reported performance cannot be achieved under identical conditions.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Chien-Yao Wang, Alexey Bochkovskiy and Hong-Yuan Mark Liao (2021), Scaled-YOLOv4: Scaling Cross Stage Partial Network, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings. Ecdysis, claim ext:85a7fe26510c242b. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:85a7fe26510c242b
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