Model reference · open weights
convnext_tiny.dinov3_lvd is an open-weight embedding model from timm, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.
About
Model card for convnexttiny.dinov3lvd1689m 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): 27.8 - GMACs: 4.5 - Activations (M): 13.4 - 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 Feature Map Extraction Image Embeddings Citation
Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.
Specifications
| Maker | timm |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Parameters (lead) | 28M |
| Variants | 1 |
| Runs with | timm |
| Released | 2025-09-11 |
| Popularity | 74k downloads / month |
| Likes | 4 |
| Licence | Commercial licence needed |
How it works
Variants
Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| convnext_tiny.dinov3_lvd1689m | 28M | BF16 | ~0.1 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys convnext-tiny-dinov3-lvd for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (convnext-tiny-dinov3-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-tiny-dinov3-lvd","input":"text to embed"}'
Licence
The weights are open but its licence needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗
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