--- title: Researchers Solved a Decade-old Problem in Object Detection description: YOLO26 from Ultralytics introduces end-to-end object detection inference by eliminating the traditional Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) post-processing step.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/researchers-solved-a-decade-old-problem-in-object-detection-nr8nvuooe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Researchers Solved a Decade-old Problem in Object Detection | daily.dev og:description: YOLO26 from Ultralytics introduces end-to-end object detection inference by eliminating the traditional Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) post-processing step.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/researchers-solved-a-decade-old-problem-in-object-detection-nr8nvuooe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nR8NvuoOe.png og:image:alt: Researchers Solved a Decade-old Problem in Object Detection og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Researchers Solved a Decade-old Problem in Object Detection **[Daily Dose of Data Science \| Avi Chawla \| Substack](https://daily.dev/sources/dailydoseofds)** · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary YOLO26 from Ultralytics introduces end-to-end object detection inference by eliminating the traditional Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) post-processing step. Using a dual-head architecture with a one-to-one head and a one-to-many head, the model produces final predictions in a single pass—up to 300 detections per image with one box per object—without any separate filtering logic. This simplifies deployment pipelines, ensures consistent behavior across hardware platforms, and resolves the long-standing training-versus-deployment tradeoff in object detection. The one-to-many head with NMS remains available for applications that require it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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