The article highlights the importance of data quality in machine learning models, emphasizing that most failures stem from data issues rather than architectural flaws.
The author discusses common data misalignment problems like incorrect annotations, class imbalances, and bounding box errors that often go unnoticed but severely impact model performance.
The Yololint tool is introduced as a solution to help ML practitioners critically evaluate their datasets before training, by checking directory structures, annotation consistency, class frequencies, bounding box validity, and more.
Yololint aims to make invisible data quality issues visible to prevent them from compromising the accuracy and reliability of machine learning models.