YOLOv8-16bit/docs/reference/utils/tal.md

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description: Explore Ultralytics utilities for optimized task assignment, bounding box creation, and distance calculation. Learn more about algorithm implementations.
keywords: Ultralytics, task aligned assigner, select highest overlaps, make anchors, dist2bbox, bbox2dist, utilities, algorithm
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# Reference for `ultralytics/utils/tal.py`

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    Full source code for this file is available at [https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/main/ultralytics/utils/tal.py](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/main/ultralytics/utils/tal.py).

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## ::: ultralytics.utils.tal.TaskAlignedAssigner
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## ::: ultralytics.utils.tal.select_candidates_in_gts
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## ::: ultralytics.utils.tal.select_highest_overlaps
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## ::: ultralytics.utils.tal.make_anchors
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## ::: ultralytics.utils.tal.dist2bbox
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## ::: ultralytics.utils.tal.bbox2dist
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