Can Darknet run YOLOv7 and YOLOv7-tiny?

[NickDatLe]

I would like to run YOLOv7-tiny on Darknet if it is faster than the pytorch implementation. So my questions are:

1. Can yolov7 run on darknet?
2. Can yolov7-tiny run on darknet?
3. Is Darknet faster than pytorch? (Would be the only practical reason I would use Darknet over pytorch)

[SheldonWBM]

1. Yes, read the documentation:
   https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet
   Official YOLOv7: Trainable bag-of-freebies sets new state-of-the-art for real-time object detectors pjreddie/darknet#2557
2. Yes, you can use yolov7, yolov7x and yolovy7-tiny
3. For training, probably not any faster. At runtime (i.e. actively detecting objects in a live stream) C/C++ is faster (higher FPS) than Python (from experience). Darknet can run in C/C++ or Python mode (read documentation). If you are changing OpenCV, please make sure you modify the appropriate OpenCV for your runtime environment. Note, if you modify C/C++ code, you must compile it to see changes. Python does not require compiling before running which, might be one reason it is slower.

[NickDatLe]

1. detectors Official YOLOv7: Trainable bag-of-freebies sets new state-of-the-art for real-time object detectors pjreddie/darknet#2557

Thank you so much @SheldonWBM for your answers. I will test darknet to run inference.