Model reference · open weights
vit_large_patch16_siglip_256.v2_webli is an open-weight embedding model from timm. vit_large_patch16_siglip_256.v2_webli (FP32) weighs 632 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the timm/vit_large_patch16_siglip_256.v2_webli model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | timm |
|---|---|
| Released | 2025-02-21 |
| Parameters | 316M |
| VRAM | 632 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Runs | 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 |
From the model card
A SigLIP 2 ViT (image encoder only) for timm. Equivalent to image tower from https://huggingface.co/timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256.
@article{tschannen2025siglip,
title={SigLIP 2: Multilingual Vision-Language Encoders with Improved Semantic Understanding, Localization, and Dense Features},
author={Tschannen, Michael and Gritsenko, Alexey and Wang, Xiao and Naeem, Muhammad Ferjad and Alabdulmohsin, Ibrahim and Parthasarathy, Nikhil and Evans, Talfan and Beyer, Lucas and Xia, Ye and Mustafa, Basil and H'enaff, Olivier and Harmsen, Jeremiah and Steiner, Andreas and Zhai, Xiaohua},
year={2025},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.14786}
}
@inproceedings{zhai2023sigmoid,
title={Sigmoid loss for language image pre-training},
author={Zhai, Xiaohua and Mustafa, Basil and Kolesnikov, Alexander and Beyer, Lucas},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision},
pages={11975--11986},
year={2023}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
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