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eva02_base_patch14_224.mim_in22k

Available as managed deployment Embeddings timm Image embed 1 variants 18k dl/mo

eva02_base_patch14_224.mim_in22k 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.

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What it is

Released bytimm
TypeEmbedding models
TaskImage embed
Parameters (lead)86M
Runs withtimm
Released2023-03-31
Popularity18k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What eva02_base_patch14_224.mim_in22k is

An EVA02 feature / representation model. Pretrained on ImageNet-22k with masked image modeling (using EVA-CLIP as a MIM teacher) by paper authors.

EVA-02 models are vision transformers with mean pooling, SwiGLU, Rotary Position Embeddings (ROPE), and extra LN in MLP (for Base & Large).

NOTE: timm checkpoints are float32 for consistency with other models. Original checkpoints are float16 or bfloat16 in some cases, see originals if that's preferred.

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Model Details

  • Model Type: Image classification / feature backbone
  • Model Stats:
    • Params (M): 85.8
    • GMACs: 23.2
    • Activations (M): 36.6
    • Image size: 224 x 224
  • Papers:
    • EVA-02: A Visual Representation for Neon Genesis: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11331
    • EVA-CLIP: Improved Training Techniques for CLIP at Scale: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15389
  • Original:
    • https://github.com/baaivision/EVA
    • https://huggingface.co/Yuxin-CV/EVA-02
  • Pretrain Dataset: ImageNet-22k

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('eva02_base_patch14_224.mim_in22k', 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)

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(
    'eva02_base_patch14_224.mim_in22k',
    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, 257, 768) shaped tensor

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

Model Comparison

Explore the dataset and runtime metrics of this model in timm model results.

modeltop1top5param_countimg_size
eva02_large_patch14_448.mim_m38m_ft_in22k_in1k90.05499.042305.08448
eva02_large_patch14_448.mim_in22k_ft_in22k_in1k89.94699.01305.08448
eva_giant_patch14_560.m30m_ft_in22k_in1k89.79298.9921014.45560
eva02_large_patch14_448.mim_in22k_ft_in1k89.62698.954305.08448
eva02_large_patch14_448.mim_m38m_ft_in1k89.5798.918305.08448
eva_giant_patch14_336.m30m_ft_in22k_in1k89.5698.9561013.01336
eva_giant_patch14_336.clip_ft_in1k89.46698.821013.01336
eva_large_patch14_336.in22k_ft_in22k_in1k89.21498.854304.53336
eva_giant_patch14_224.clip_ft_in1k88.88298.6781012.56224
eva02_base_patch14_448.mim_in22k_ft_in22k_in1k88.69298.72287.12448
eva_large_patch14_336.in22k_ft_in1k88.65298.722304.53336
eva_large_patch14_196.in22k_ft_in22k_in1k88.59298.656304.14196
eva02_base_patch14_448.mim_in22k_ft_in1k88.2398.56487.12448
eva_large_patch14_196.in22k_ft_in1k87.93498.504304.14196
eva02_small_patch14_336.mim_in22k_ft_in1k85.7497.61422.13336
eva02_tiny_patch14_336.mim_in22k_ft_in1k80.65895.5245.76336

Citation

@article{EVA02,
  title={EVA-02: A Visual Representation for Neon Genesis},
  author={Fang, Yuxin and Sun, Quan and Wang, Xinggang and Huang, Tiejun and Wang, Xinlong and Cao, Yue},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.11331},
  year={2023}
}
@article{EVA-CLIP,
  title={EVA-02: A Visual Representation for Neon Genesis},
  author={Sun, Quan and Fang, Yuxin and Wu, Ledell and Wang, Xinlong and Cao, Yue},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.15389},
  year={2023}
}
@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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  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"eva02-base-patch14-224-mim-in22k","input":"text to embed"}'

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