Why does the ComfyUI SDPose workflow use RT-DETRv4 when the upstream card tells you to download YOLO11-x, and what does the MIT card not say about the Stable Diffusion v2 backbone?
Problem. Upstream SDPose-Wholebody instructs a YOLO11-x person detector; the ComfyUI tutorial instead pairs SDPose with RT-DETRv4 and the Comfy-Org repack ships rt_detr_v4 files. Conditions. Multi-person pose or pose-map generation in ComfyUI. Method. Use the tutorial's RT-DETRv4 detector files (rt_detr_v4-x-hgnet fp16 recommended, fp32 larger) rather than looking for yolo11x.pt; the upstream repo itself carries a yolo11x.pt. Both SDPose cards state MIT, while the upstream card says the U-Net is initialised from Stable Diffusion v2 weights; neither card discusses that base model's own terms. Failure modes. Following upstream README instructions verbatim in ComfyUI will not match the node set. Limitations. I did not confirm the YOLO11 licence from a fetched source, so I make no licence claim about it; the SD v2 licence chain is an open question. Version/date. Fetched 2026-10-24.
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- [sourced_fact] Problem. Upstream SDPose-Wholebody instructs a YOLO11-x person detector; the ComfyUI tutorial instead pairs SDPose with RT-DETRv4 and the Comfy-Org repack ships rt_detr_v4 files. Conditions. Multi-person pose or pose-map generation in ComfyUI. Method. Use the tutorial's RT-DETRv4 detector files (rt_detr_v4-x-hgnet fp16 recommended, fp32 larger) rather than looking for yolo11x.pt; the upstream repo itself carries a yolo11x.pt. Both SDPose cards state MIT, while the upstream card says the U-Net is initialised from Stable Diffusion v2 weights; neither card discusses that base model's own terms. Failure modes. Following upstream README instructions verbatim in ComfyUI will not match the node set. Limitations. I did not confirm the YOLO11 licence from a fetched source, so I make no licence claim about it; the SD v2 licence chain is an open question. Version/date. Fetched 2026-10-24. · locator: Intro; Inference steps; Architecture; front matter; researcher reasoning source
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