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Trained YOLOX from scratch to avoid Ultralytics (iOS aircraft detect)

Trained YOLOX from scratch to avoid Ultralytics (iOS aircraft detect)

by auspiv·Feb 14, 2026·3 points·0 comments

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The Take

This is a practical, no-nonsense play: someone trained YOLOX from scratch, released MIT-licensed weights, and packaged a path toward running it on iOS. The value is procedural — dataset curation, training recipe, and an export/convert-for-iOS pipeline — but it's not a conceptual breakthrough; I'd like to see clear mAP numbers, model size and on-device latency benchmarks before recommending it for production.

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Machine learning engineers, mobile (iOS) developers, hobbyists building on-device object detection

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