ultralytics/docs/en/reference/utils/nms.md

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description: Custom NMS implementation for Ultralytics YOLO with TorchNMS class for torchvision-free inference and fast-nms for oriented bounding boxes. Optimized for speed and accuracy.
keywords: NMS, non-maximum suppression, TorchNMS, YOLO, torchvision-free, rotated NMS, object detection, bounding boxes, IoU threshold, custom implementation
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# Reference for `ultralytics/utils/nms.py`

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## ::: ultralytics.utils.nms.TorchNMS

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## ::: ultralytics.utils.nms.non_max_suppression

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