Model reference · open weights
qwen3_vit.qwen3_5_0 is an open-weight embedding model from timm. qwen3_vit_88m.qwen3_5_0_8b (FP32) weighs 175 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
What it is
| Released by | timm |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Task | Image embed |
| Parameters (lead) | 87M |
| Runs with | timm |
| Based on | Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B |
| Released | 2026-09-10 |
| Popularity | 757 downloads / month |
| Weights | 175 MB (qwen3_vit_88m.qwen3_5_0_8b (FP32), file size) |
| Licence | Open weights |
What it runs on
Weights 175 MB (file size) · overhead about 1.1 GB.
| Card | Runs | Counted memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 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
A Qwen ViT image feature model extracted from Qwen3.5-0.8B. This is the classifier-ready wrapper with average pooling and affine-free LayerNorm over the encoder features.
NOTE: This checkpoint is a native timm remap of the original vision weights, with no additional training. It contains no language-model weights or trained image-classification head.
mean=(0.5, 0.5, 0.5) and std=(0.5, 0.5, 0.5). Rectangular inputs are supported. Each image dimension must be divisible by 16; any variant using the 2×2 merger requires divisibility by 32.forward_features() returns raw, unnormalized NHWC backbone features. The _enc variant returns spatially merged tokens from forward(); the classifier variant returns pooled image embeddings until a classification head is added.import torch
import timm
from PIL import Image
model = timm.create_model('hf-hub:timm/qwen3_vit_88m.qwen3_5_0_8b', pretrained=True).eval()
data_config = timm.data.resolve_model_data_config(model)
transform = timm.data.create_transform(**data_config, is_training=False)
image = Image.open('image.jpg').convert('RGB')
x = transform(image).unsqueeze(0)
with torch.inference_mode():
output = model(x) # (1, 768): image embeddings
features = model.forward_features(x) # (1, 48, 48, 768): raw backbone features (NHWC)
with torch.inference_mode():
maps = model.forward_intermediates(
x, indices=3, output_fmt='NCHW', intermediates_only=True,
)
for feature_map in maps:
print(feature_map.shape) # (1, 768, 48, 48)
model = timm.create_model(
'hf-hub:timm/qwen3_vit_88m.qwen3_5_0_8b', pretrained=True, num_classes=45,
)
logits = model(x) # (1, 45)
The new linear head is randomly initialized and must be trained on your target dataset.
@misc{qwen3.5,
title={{Qwen3.5}: Towards Native Multimodal Agents},
author={{Qwen Team}},
month={February},
year={2026},
url={https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.5}
}
@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}}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face — the full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
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