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In response to these issues, this article proposes a shunt feature fusion model (ST-YOLO) for steel-defect detection, which uses a split feature network structure and a self-correcting transmission allocation method for training. The network structure is designed to specialize the process of classification and localization tasks for different computing needs. By using the self-correction criteria of adaptive sampling and dynamic label allocation, more sufficiently high-quality samples are utilized to adjust data distribution and optimize the training process. 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