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BRANCH NOTICE: The [ultralytics/yolov3](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov3) repository is now divided into two branches:
* [Master branch](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov3/tree/master): Forward-compatible with all [YOLOv5](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5) models and methods (**recommended**).