ultralytics 8.3.155

v8.3.155 - `ultralytics 8.3.155` Fix YOLO-World `set_classes()` error after prediction (#21051)

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🌟 Summary

This release (v8.3.155) delivers a key bug fix for YOLO-World models, improves developer experience with enhanced type annotations, and updates documentation and learning resources. 🚀📚

📊 Key Changes

• 🛠️ YOLO-World Bug Fix: Resolved an error with the set_classes() method after running predictions, ensuring smoother workflow when updating classes dynamically.
• 📝 Better Type Annotations: Added detailed argument and return type hints across Ultralytics Solutions modules, making the codebase clearer and more robust for developers.
• 📺 New Video Guide: Embedded a YouTube video in the Similarity Search documentation for a more engaging, visual learning experience.
• 📄 Documentation Update: Clarified that the batch parameter supports both integers and floats, helping users leverage advanced batch size features.
• 🔗 Improved Link Checking: Enhanced the repository’s link validation workflow for more accurate and reliable documentation checks.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• 🐞 For YOLO-World Users: You can now safely change detection classes after making predictions, even when moving models between devices (e.g., CPU/GPU), without encountering errors.
• 👩‍💻 For Developers: Improved type annotations make the code easier to read, maintain, and extend, while boosting IDE support and reducing bugs.
• 🎓 For Learners: The new video guide helps users quickly grasp how to build and use semantic image search with Ultralytics, OpenAI CLIP, and Meta FAISS.
• 📚 For All Users: Documentation is now more accurate and user-friendly, reducing confusion and making advanced features easier to use.
• 🛡️ For Project Quality: More robust link checking ensures that documentation remains reliable and up-to-date.

Overall, this update enhances reliability, developer experience, and learning resources for the Ultralytics community! 🌟

What's Changed

• Update links.yml by @glenn-jocher in #21040
• Docs: Correct batch parameter type to reflect float support by @muhammadravi251001 in #21053
• Add https://youtu.be/zplKRlX3sLg to docs by @RizwanMunawar in #21052
• Add argument and return type annotations to Solutions by @RizwanMunawar in #21057
• ultralytics 8.3.155 Fix YOLO-World set_classes() error after prediction by @Y-T-G in #21051

New Contributors

• @muhammadravi251001 made their first contribution in #21053

Full Changelog: v8.3.154...v8.3.155