Model reference · open weights
convnext_small.eupe_lvd is an open-weight embedding model from timm. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Released by | timm |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Task | Image embed |
| Parameters (lead) | 49M |
| Runs with | timm |
| Released | 2026-05-27 |
| Popularity | 745 downloads / month |
| Licence | Commercial licence needed |
About
An EUPE ConvNeXt image feature encoder. Distilled on LVD-1689M using the Efficient Universal Perception Encoder method, from a proxy teacher distilled from multiple domain-expert foundation vision encoders.
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_small.eupe_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)
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_small.eupe_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, 96, 64, 64])
# torch.Size([1, 192, 32, 32])
# torch.Size([1, 384, 16, 16])
# torch.Size([1, 768, 8, 8])
print(o.shape)
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_small.eupe_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, 768, 8, 8) shaped tensor
output = model.forward_head(output, pre_logits=True)
# output is a (1, num_features) shaped tensor
See the associated paper for details on the evaluation protocols.
| Model | Params | TextVQA | SQA | Realworld | POPE | GQA | MMEp | SPair | NYUv2 | ADE20k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUPE-ConvNeXt-T | 29M | 43.7 | 68.8 | 47.9 | 83.4 | 63.0 | 1278.1 | 41.3 | 0.430 | 43.5 |
| EUPE-ConvNeXt-S | 50M | 45.0 | 68.9 | 50.5 | 84.0 | 64.7 | 1284.2 | 40.1 | 0.388 | 46.8 |
| EUPE-ConvNeXt-B | 89M | 46.4 | 70.1 | 53.3 | 84.7 | 65.8 | 1348.9 | 37.7 | 0.365 | 48.9 |
@misc{zhu2026eupe,
title={Efficient Universal Perception Encoder},
author={Zhu, Chenchen and Suri, Saksham and Jose, Cijo and Oquab, Maxime and Szafraniec, Marc and Wen, Wei and Xiong, Yunyang and Labatut, Patrick and Bojanowski, Piotr and Krishnamoorthi, Raghuraman and Chandra, Vikas},
year={2026},
eprint={2603.22387},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22387},
}
@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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How it works
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys convnext-small-eupe-lvd for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (convnext-small-eupe-lvd below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/embeddings \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"convnext-small-eupe-lvd","input":"text to embed"}'
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