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vit_large_patch14_dinov2.lvd142m is an open-weight embedding model from timm. vit_large_patch14_dinov2.lvd142m (FP32) weighs 609 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
vit_large_patch14_dinov2.lvd142m is a Vision Transformer image feature model developed by timm. It is designed for image feature extraction and was pretrained on the LVD-142M dataset using the self-supervised DINOv2 method. The model contains 304 million parameters and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Summary of the timm/vit_large_patch14_dinov2.lvd142m model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | timm |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Task | Image embed |
| Parameters (lead) | 304M |
| Runs with | timm |
| Released | 2023-05-09 |
| Popularity | 170k downloads / month |
| Weights | 609 MB (vit_large_patch14_dinov2.lvd142m (FP32), file size) |
| Licence | Open weights |
What it runs on
Weights 609 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 Vision Transformer (ViT) image feature model. Pretrained on LVD-142M with self-supervised DINOv2 method.
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_large_patch14_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)
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_large_patch14_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, 1370, 1024) shaped tensor
output = model.forward_head(output, pre_logits=True)
# output is a (1, num_features) shaped tensor
Explore the dataset and runtime metrics of this model in timm model results.
@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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