[basedbertram]

At the very least v4 has a paper attached to it. The authors of v5 have claimed that they'll release a paper at some point, but it has never materialized. It doesn't seem like v6 even makes that promise.

[npRandom]

Yup. They don't plan to release a paper but a technical report https://github.com/meituan/YOLOv6/issues/95