Model reference · open weights
vit_small_patch8_224.dino 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 by | timm |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Task | Image embed |
| Parameters (lead) | 22M |
| Runs with | timm |
| Released | 2022-12-22 |
| Popularity | 5k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
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_patch8_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_patch8_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, 785, 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}}
}
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
How it works
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys vit-small-patch8-224-dino for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (vit-small-patch8-224-dino 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-small-patch8-224-dino","input":"text to embed"}'
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