Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Roboflow
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RF-DETR

Roboflow real-time detection transformer family (N/S/M/L/XL/2XL); ICLR 2026 poster. Segmentation support per Roboflow is unverified.

Figure from the RF-DETR paper: Accuracy-Latency Pareto Curve.
Levelfamily
Classvision
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
ReleasedNov 2025
Opennessunknown
Runs onsingle datacentre GPU, embedded GPU
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

vendor-reported
RF-DETR 2XLvalvendor-reported
60.1
Nov 2025 arxiv.org
RF-DETR Mvalvendor-reported
54.7
Nov 2025 arxiv.org
RF-DETR Svalvendor-reported
52.9
Nov 2025 arxiv.org
RF-DETR Nvalvendor-reported
48
03570

Score in AP. Higher is better.

Nov 2025 arxiv.org
Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

successorfinetune
LW-DETR to RF-DETR: successor, medium confidenceDINOv2 to DINOv3: successor, high confidenceDINOv2 to RF-DETR: finetune, medium confidenceDINO (v1) to DINOv2: successor, high confidenceDINO (v1)DINO (v1)Meta, Apr 2021LW-DETRLW-DETRDINOv2DINOv2Meta, Jul 2023DINOv3DINOv3Meta, Aug 2025RF-DETRRF-DETRRoboflow, Nov 2025
LW-DETR is the parent (successor)medium confidencemodel card
MetaDINOv2 is the parent (finetune)medium confidencemodel card
RoboflowRF-DETR 2XL belongs to this familyvisionNov 2025126.9M
RoboflowRF-DETR L belongs to this familyvisionNov 2025
RoboflowRF-DETR M belongs to this familyvisionNov 202533.7M
RoboflowRF-DETR N belongs to this familyvisionNov 202530.5M
RoboflowRF-DETR S belongs to this familyvisionNov 202532.1M
RoboflowRF-DETR XL belongs to this familyvisionNov 2025
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 5 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
Roboflow
Family
not in the notes
Released
Nov 2025 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
dense transformer Real-time DETR; LW-DETR base with DINOv2 backbone replacing CAEv2; neural architecture search
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
N 30.5M, S 32.1M, M 33.7M, 2XL 126.9M
Context length
not in the notes
Input
image
Output
image, text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
unknown
Licence
not in the notes sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
single datacentre GPU, embedded GPU
Footprint
N 2.3 ms, 2XL 17.2 ms latency
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. RF-DETR: Neural Architecture Search for Real-Time Detection Transformers arxiv.org https://arxiv.org/html/2511.09554v2
  2. ICLR Poster RF-DETR: Neural Architecture Search for Real-Time Detection Transformers iclr.cc https://iclr.cc/virtual/2026/poster/10007257

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "RF-DETR", https://aurion.semai.id/models/roboflow-rf-detr/, records of October 2026.