Adding Class incremental Learning to YOLOv8 about ultralytics

[glenn-jocher]

Hello!

Thank you for your interest in extending YOLOv8 with class incremental learning capabilities. Currently, there isn't a built-in feature in YOLOv8 specifically designed for incremental class learning. However, this is indeed an interesting area for future development.

While we don't have immediate plans to incorporate this feature, we are always open to community contributions and suggestions. If you or anyone else is interested in developing this feature, we encourage you to fork the repository and experiment with your ideas. Contributions that align with our goals and show promising results could potentially be merged into the main branch.

For now, you might consider adapting existing incremental learning frameworks to work with YOLOv8 or exploring ways to modify the training process to accommodate new classes without retraining from scratch.

Thanks again for your suggestion, and we look forward to seeing innovative contributions from the community!

[github-actions]

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Install

Pip install the ultralytics package including all requirements in a Python>=3.8 environment with PyTorch>=1.8.

pip install ultralytics

Environments

YOLOv8 may be run in any of the following up-to-date verified environments (with all dependencies including CUDA/CUDNN, Python and PyTorch preinstalled):

• Notebooks with free GPU:
• Google Cloud Deep Learning VM. See GCP Quickstart Guide
• Amazon Deep Learning AMI. See AWS Quickstart Guide
• Docker Image. See Docker Quickstart Guide

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[github-actions]

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