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[Ultralytics](https://ultralytics.com) [YOLOv8](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics) is a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art (SOTA) model that builds upon the success of previous YOLO versions and introduces new features and improvements to further boost performance and flexibility. YOLOv8 is designed to be fast, accurate, and easy to use, making it an excellent choice for a wide range of object detection and tracking, instance segmentation, image classification and pose estimation tasks.
We hope that the resources here will help you get the most out of YOLOv8. Please browse the YOLOv8 <ahref="https://docs.ultralytics.com/">Docs</a> for details, raise an issue on <ahref="https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/issues/new/choose">GitHub</a> for support, and join our <ahref="https://discord.gg/7aegy5d8">Discord</a> community for questions and discussions!
See below for a quickstart installation and usage example, and see the [YOLOv8 Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com) for full documentation on training, validation, prediction and deployment.
Pip install the ultralytics package including all [requirements](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/main/requirements.txt) in a [**Python>=3.8**](https://www.python.org/) environment with [**PyTorch>=1.7**](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/).
For alternative installation methods including Conda, Docker, and Git, please refer to the [Ultralytics Quickstart Guide](https://docs.ultralytics.com/quickstart).
`yolo` can be used for a variety of tasks and modes and accepts additional arguments, i.e. `imgsz=640`. See the YOLOv8 [CLI Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/usage/cli) for examples.
YOLOv8 may also be used directly in a Python environment, and accepts the same [arguments](https://docs.ultralytics.com/usage/cfg/) as in the CLI example above:
[Models](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/tree/main/ultralytics/models) download automatically from the latest Ultralytics [release](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases). See YOLOv8 [Python Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/usage/python) for more examples.
YOLOv8 [Detect](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/detect), [Segment](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/segment) and [Pose](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/pose) models pretrained on the [COCO](https://docs.ultralytics.com/datasets/detect/coco) dataset are available here, as well as YOLOv8 [Classify](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/classify) models pretrained on the [ImageNet](https://docs.ultralytics.com/datasets/classify/imagenet) dataset. [Track](https://docs.ultralytics.com/modes/track) mode is available for all Detect, Segment and Pose models.
All [Models](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/tree/main/ultralytics/models) download automatically from the latest Ultralytics [release](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases) on first use.
| Label and export your custom datasets directly to YOLOv8 for training with [Roboflow](https://roboflow.com/?ref=ultralytics) | Automatically track, visualize and even remotely train YOLOv8 using [ClearML](https://cutt.ly/yolov5-readme-clearml) (open-source!) | Free forever, [Comet](https://bit.ly/yolov8-readme-comet) lets you save YOLOv8 models, resume training, and interactively visualize and debug predictions | Run YOLOv8 inference up to 6x faster with [Neural Magic DeepSparse](https://bit.ly/yolov5-neuralmagic) |
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We love your input! YOLOv5 and YOLOv8 would not be possible without help from our community. Please see our [Contributing Guide](https://docs.ultralytics.com/help/contributing) to get started, and fill out our [Survey](https://ultralytics.com/survey?utm_source=github&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Survey) to send us feedback on your experience. Thank you 🙏 to all our contributors!
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For YOLOv8 bug reports and feature requests please visit [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/issues), and join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/7aegy5d8) community for questions and discussions!
