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convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m

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convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m is an open-weight embedding model from timm. convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m (FP32) weighs 392 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m is an image feature extraction model developed by timm. It is a ConvNeXt architecture with 196M parameters, pretrained on the LVD-1689M dataset using the self-supervised DINOv3 method and distilled from DINOv3 ViT-7B. The model processes 224x224 images and is distributed under the DINOv3 license.

Summary of the timm/convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bytimm
TypeEmbedding models
TaskImage embed
Parameters (lead)196M
Runs withtimm
Released2025-09-11
Popularity9k downloads / month
Weights392 MB (convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m (FP32), file size)
LicenceIts own licence terms

What it runs on

Memory and cards for convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m (FP32)

Weights 392 MB (file size) · overhead about 1.1 GB.

CardRunsCounted
memory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

Estimates, not measurements: the weights are the build's file size. No cache grows with use; a batch of inputs needs working memory of its own. Counted memory is 92 % of what CUDA reports for the card.

From the model card

What timm says about convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m

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A DINOv3 ConvNeXt image feature model. Pretrained on LVD-1689M with self-supervised DINOv3 method, distilled from DINOv3 ViT-7B.

Model Details

  • Model Type: Image classification / feature backbone
  • Model Stats:
    • Params (M): 196.2
    • GMACs: 34.4
    • Activations (M): 43.1
    • Image size: 224 x 224
  • Papers:
    • DINOv3: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10104
    • A ConvNet for the 2020s: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03545
    • PyTorch Image Models: https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models
  • Original: https://github.com/facebookresearch/dinov3
  • Pretrain Dataset: LVD-1689M
  • License: DINOv3

Model Usage

Image Classification

from urllib.request import urlopen
from PIL import Image
import timm

img = Image.open(urlopen(
    'https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/beignets-task-guide.png'
))

model = timm.create_model('convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m', pretrained=True)
model = model.eval()

# get model specific transforms (normalization, resize)
data_config = timm.data.resolve_model_data_config(model)
transforms = timm.data.create_transform(**data_config, is_training=False)

output = model(transforms(img).unsqueeze(0))  # unsqueeze single image into batch of 1

top5_probabilities, top5_class_indices = torch.topk(output.softmax(dim=1) * 100, k=5)

Feature Map Extraction

from urllib.request import urlopen
from PIL import Image
import timm

img = Image.open(urlopen(
    'https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/beignets-task-guide.png'
))

model = timm.create_model(
    'convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m',
    pretrained=True,
    features_only=True,
)
model = model.eval()

# get model specific transforms (normalization, resize)
data_config = timm.data.resolve_model_data_config(model)
transforms = timm.data.create_transform(**data_config, is_training=False)

output = model(transforms(img).unsqueeze(0))  # unsqueeze single image into batch of 1

for o in output:
    # print shape of each feature map in output
    # e.g.:
    #  torch.Size([1, 192, 56, 56])
    #  torch.Size([1, 384, 28, 28])
    #  torch.Size([1, 768, 14, 14])
    #  torch.Size([1, 1536, 7, 7])

    print(o.shape)

Image Embeddings

from urllib.request import urlopen
from PIL import Image
import timm

img = Image.open(urlopen(
    'https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/beignets-task-guide.png'
))

model = timm.create_model(
    'convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m',
    pretrained=True,
    num_classes=0,  # remove classifier nn.Linear
)
model = model.eval()

# get model specific transforms (normalization, resize)
data_config = timm.data.resolve_model_data_config(model)
transforms = timm.data.create_transform(**data_config, is_training=False)

output = model(transforms(img).unsqueeze(0))  # output is (batch_size, num_features) shaped tensor

# or equivalently (without needing to set num_classes=0)

output = model.forward_features(transforms(img).unsqueeze(0))
# output is unpooled, a (1, 1536, 7, 7) shaped tensor

output = model.forward_head(output, pre_logits=True)
# output is a (1, num_features) shaped tensor

Citation

@article{simeoni2025dinov3,
  title={DINOv3},
  author={Sim{'e}oni, Oriane and Vo, Huy V and Seitzer, Maximilian and Baldassarre, Federico and Oquab, Maxime and Jose, Cijo and Khalidov, Vasil and Szafraniec, Marc and Yi, Seungeun and Ramamonjisoa, Micha{"e}l and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.10104},
  year={2025}
}
}
@article{liu2022convnet,
  author  = {Zhuang Liu and Hanzi Mao and Chao-Yuan Wu and Christoph Feichtenhofer and Trevor Darrell and Saining Xie},
  title   = {A ConvNet for the 2020s},
  journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year    = {2022},
}
@misc{rw2019timm,
  author = {Ross Wightman},
  title = {PyTorch Image Models},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4414861},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models}}
}

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