Model reference · open weights
vit_large_patch16_siglip_256.v2_webli is an open-weight embedding model from timm, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.
About
Model card for vitlargepatch16siglip256.v2webli A SigLIP 2 ViT (image encoder only) for timm. Equivalent to image tower from https://huggingface.co/timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256. Model Details - Dataset: webli - Papers: - SigLIP 2: Multilingual Vision-Language Encoders with Improved Semantic Understanding, Localization, and Dense Features: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14786 - Sigmoid Loss for Language Image Pre-Training: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15343 Citation
Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.
Specifications
| Maker | timm |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Parameters (lead) | 316M |
| Variants | 1 |
| Runs with | timm |
| Released | 2025-02-21 |
| Popularity | 64k downloads / month |
| Likes | 2 |
| Licence | Open weights |
How it works
Variants
Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vit_large_patch16_siglip_256.v2_webli | 316M | BF16 | ~0.7 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys vit-large-patch16-siglip-256-v2-webli for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (vit-large-patch16-siglip-256-v2-webli 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-large-patch16-siglip-256-v2-webli","input":"text to embed"}'
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Licence
Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗
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