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vit_huge_patch14_224.mae

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

vit_huge_patch14_224.mae 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 bytimm
TypeEmbedding models
TaskImage embed
Parameters (lead)631M
Runs withtimm
Released2023-05-09
Popularity1k downloads / month
LicenceCommercial licence needed

About

What vit_huge_patch14_224.mae is

A Vision Transformer (ViT) image feature model. Pretrained on ImageNet-1k with Self-Supervised Masked Autoencoder (MAE) method.

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Model Details

  • Model Type: Image classification / feature backbone
  • Model Stats:
    • Params (M): 630.8
    • GMACs: 167.4
    • Activations (M): 139.4
    • Image size: 224 x 224
  • Papers:
    • Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06377
    • An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929v2
  • Pretrain Dataset: ImageNet-1k
  • Original: https://github.com/facebookresearch/mae

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_huge_patch14_224.mae', 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_huge_patch14_224.mae',
    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, 1280) 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{MaskedAutoencoders2021,
  author  = {Kaiming He and Xinlei Chen and Saining Xie and Yanghao Li and Piotr Doll{'a}r and Ross Girshick},
  journal = {arXiv:2111.06377},
  title   = {Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners},
  year    = {2021},
}
@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}}
}

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How it works

How embedding models work

Your textsentence / documentEncodermaps meaningVectorlist of numbersAn embedding model turns text into a vector, so similar meanings sit close together — the basis of search and RAG.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys vit-huge-patch14-224-mae for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (vit-huge-patch14-224-mae 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":"vit-huge-patch14-224-mae","input":"text to embed"}'

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