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vit_base_patch14_reg4_dinov2.lvd142m

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vit_base_patch14_reg4_dinov2.lvd142m is an open-weight embedding model from timm. vit_base_patch14_reg4_dinov2.lvd142m (FP32) weighs 173 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

vit_base_patch14_reg4_dinov2.lvd142m is a Vision Transformer image feature model with registers, developed by timm and released under the Apache 2.0 license. It contains 87 million parameters and was pretrained on the LVD-142M dataset using the self-supervised DINOv2 method. The model is designed for image feature extraction and classification tasks, processing input images at a size of 518 by 518 pixels.

Summary of the timm/vit_base_patch14_reg4_dinov2.lvd142m model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bytimm
TypeEmbedding models
TaskImage embed
Parameters (lead)87M
Runs withtimm
Released2023-10-30
Popularity275k downloads / month
Weights173 MB (vit_base_patch14_reg4_dinov2.lvd142m (FP32), file size)
LicenceOpen weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for vit_base_patch14_reg4_dinov2.lvd142m (FP32)

Weights 173 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 vit_base_patch14_reg4_dinov2.lvd142m

Read the model card

A Vision Transformer (ViT) image feature model with registers. Pretrained on LVD-142M with self-supervised DINOv2 method.

Model Details

  • Model Type: Image classification / feature backbone
  • Model Stats:
    • Params (M): 86.6
    • GMACs: 117.5
    • Activations (M): 115.0
    • Image size: 518 x 518
  • Papers:
    • Vision Transformers Need Registers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16588
    • DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07193
    • An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929v2
  • Original: https://github.com/facebookresearch/dinov2
  • Pretrain Dataset: LVD-142M

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('vit_base_patch14_reg4_dinov2.lvd142m', 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(
    'vit_base_patch14_reg4_dinov2.lvd142m',
    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, 1374, 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.

Citation

@article{darcet2023vision,
  title={Vision Transformers Need Registers},
  author={Darcet, Timoth{'e}e and Oquab, Maxime and Mairal, Julien and Bojanowski, Piotr},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16588},
  year={2023}
}
@misc{oquab2023dinov2,
  title={DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision},
  author={Oquab, Maxime and Darcet, Timothée and Moutakanni, Theo and Vo, Huy V. and Szafraniec, Marc and Khalidov, Vasil and Fernandez, Pierre and Haziza, Daniel and Massa, Francisco and El-Nouby, Alaaeldin and Howes, Russell and Huang, Po-Yao and Xu, Hu and Sharma, Vasu and Li, Shang-Wen and Galuba, Wojciech and Rabbat, Mike and Assran, Mido and Ballas, Nicolas and Synnaeve, Gabriel and Misra, Ishan and Jegou, Herve and Mairal, Julien and Labatut, Patrick and Joulin, Armand and Bojanowski, Piotr},
  journal={arXiv:2304.07193},
  year={2023}
}
@article{dosovitskiy2020vit,
  title={An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale},
  author={Dosovitskiy, Alexey and Beyer, Lucas and Kolesnikov, Alexander and Weissenborn, Dirk and Zhai, Xiaohua and Unterthiner, Thomas and  Dehghani, Mostafa and Minderer, Matthias and Heigold, Georg and Gelly, Sylvain and Uszkoreit, Jakob and Houlsby, Neil},
  journal={ICLR},
  year={2021}
}
@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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