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[D] Why I abandoned YOLO for safety critical plant/fungi identification. Closed-set classification is a silent failure mode

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Wednesday, Apr 1, 2026 · 11:54AM
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I’ve been building an open-sourced handheld device for field identification of edible and toxic plants wild plants, and fungi, running entirely on device. Early on I trained specialist YOLO models on iNaturalist research grade data and hit 94-96% accuracy across my target species. Felt great, until

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