YOLO26s RDD Base

--- license: agpl-3.0 library_name: ultralytics pipeline_tag: object-detection tags: - yolo - yolo26 - road-damage - pothole-detection - crack-detection - knowledge-distillation model-index: - name: YOLO26s_RDD_Base results: - task: {type: object-detection, name: Road Damage Detection} dataset: {name: Unified Road Defect Dataset (held-out val, 4509 imgs), type: TamAko783/Unified_Road_Defect_Dataset} metrics: - {type: mAP50, value: 0.687, name: mAP@50} - {type: mAP50-95, value: 0.372, name: mAP@50-95} - {type: F1, value: 0.665, name: F1} --- # YOLO26s · Base (small, GT-only) A **YOLO26s** road-damage detector (4-class CRDDC: D00 longitudinal, D10 transverse, D20 alligator, D40 pothole) on the [Unified Road Defect Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/TamAko783/Unified_Road_Defect_Dataset). **Method:** **Ground-truth only** — no distillation. Larger-capacity supervised baseline. ## Metrics — RDD held-out validation (4,509 images, 11,470 boxes) | Class | mAP@50 | mAP@50-95 | Precision | Recall | F1 | |---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| | D00 Longitudinal | 0.630 | 0.351 | 0.699 | 0.564 | 0.625 | | D10 Transverse | 0.669 | 0.352 | 0.710 | 0.583 | 0.640 | | D20 Alligator | 0.715 | 0.396 | 0.742 | 0.640 | 0.687 | | D40 Pothole | 0.733 | 0.388 | 0.774 | 0.649 | 0.706 | | **Overall** | **0.687** | **0.372** | **0.731** | **0.609** | **0.665** | ## Full model comparison (same held-out val) All five models in this study, evaluated identically (imgsz 640): | Model | Variant | Params | Distillation | mAP@50 | mAP@50-95 | F1 | |---|---|---:|---|---:|---:|---:| | [YOLO26n_RDD_Base](https://huggingface.co/TamAko783/YOLO26n_RDD_Base) | YOLO26n | 2.4M | — (GT only) | 0.635 | 0.334 | 0.621 | | [YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled](https://huggingface.co/TamAko783/YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled) | YOLO26n | 2.4M | 1 teacher (Co-DETR) | 0.640 | 0.337 | 0.625 | | [YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2](https://huggingface.co/TamAko783/YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2) | YOLO26n | 2.4M | 2 teachers (Co-DETR+RTMDet) | 0.638 | 0.337 | 0.626 | | **➤ YOLO26s_RDD_Base** (this model) | YOLO26s | 9M | — (GT only) | **0.687** | **0.372** | **0.665** | | [YOLO26s_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2](https://huggingface.co/TamAko783/YOLO26s_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2) | YOLO26s | 9M | 2 teachers (Co-DETR+RTMDet) | 0.692 | 0.375 | 0.672 | **Reading it:** - **Distillation helps** — every distilled model beats its GT-onl...