Model reference · open weights
vit_small_patch16_224.dino is an open-weight embedding model from timm. vit_small_patch16_224.dino (FP32) weighs 43 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the timm/vit_small_patch16_224.dino model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | timm |
|---|---|
| Released | 2022-12-22 |
| Parameters | 22M |
| VRAM | 43 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 Vision Transformer (ViT) image feature model. Trained with Self-Supervised DINO 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_small_patch16_224.dino', 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_small_patch16_224.dino',
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, 197, 384) 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.
@inproceedings{caron2021emerging,
title={Emerging properties in self-supervised vision transformers},
author={Caron, Mathilde and Touvron, Hugo and Misra, Ishan and J{'e}gou, Herv{'e} and Mairal, Julien and Bojanowski, Piotr and Joulin, Armand},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international conference on computer vision},
pages={9650--9660},
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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