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vit_tiny_patch16_dinov3_qkvb.eupe_lvd1689m

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vit_tiny_patch16_dinov3_qkvb.eupe_lvd1689m is an open-weight embedding model from timm. vit_tiny_patch16_dinov3_qkvb.eupe_lvd1689m (FP32) weighs 11 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

What it is

Released bytimm
TypeEmbedding models
TaskImage embed
Parameters (lead)5M
Runs withtimm
Released2026-05-27
Popularity2k downloads / month
Weights11 MB (vit_tiny_patch16_dinov3_qkvb.eupe_lvd1689m (FP32), file size)
LicenceNon-commercial

What it runs on

Memory and cards for vit_tiny_patch16_dinov3_qkvb.eupe_lvd1689m (FP32)

Weights 11 MB (file size) · overhead about 1.1 GB.

CardRunsCounted
memory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 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

What timm says about vit_tiny_patch16_dinov3_qkvb.eupe_lvd1689m

An EUPE Vision Transformer image feature encoder. Distilled on LVD-1689M using the Efficient Universal Perception Encoder method, from a proxy teacher distilled from multiple domain-expert foundation vision encoders.

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Model Notes

  • EUPE ViT checkpoints expose class, register, and patch tokens. In timm, global pooling defaults to average pooling; pass global_pool="token" or use --gp token to follow the upstream class-token pooling convention.

Model Details

  • Model Type: Image Feature Encoder
  • Model Stats:
    • Params (M): 5.5
    • GMACs: 1.7
    • Activations (M): 8.5
    • Image size: 256 x 256
  • Original: https://github.com/facebookresearch/EUPE
  • License: FAIR Noncommercial Research License
  • Dataset: LVD-1689M
  • Papers:
    • Efficient Universal Perception Encoder: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22387
    • An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929v2
    • PyTorch Image Models: https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models

Model Usage

Image Classification

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_tiny_patch16_dinov3_qkvb.eupe_lvd1689m', 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)

Feature Map Extraction

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_tiny_patch16_dinov3_qkvb.eupe_lvd1689m',
    pretrained=True,
    features_only=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

for o in output:
    # print shape of each feature map in output
    # e.g.:
    #  torch.Size([1, 192, 16, 16])
    #  torch.Size([1, 192, 16, 16])
    #  torch.Size([1, 192, 16, 16])

    print(o.shape)

Image Embeddings

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_tiny_patch16_dinov3_qkvb.eupe_lvd1689m',
    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, 261, 192) shaped tensor

output = model.forward_head(output, pre_logits=True)
# output is a (1, num_features) shaped tensor

Model Comparison

See the associated paper for details on the evaluation protocols.

ModelParamsIN1k-ZSIN1k-KNNTextVQASQARealworldPOPEGQAMMEpSPairNYUv2ADE20k
EUPE-ViT-T6M50.566.342.069.550.082.461.41258.037.20.57136.7
EUPE-ViT-S20M69.878.244.169.351.784.565.01304.946.50.45546.6
EUPE-ViT-B86M79.784.150.469.755.585.967.31374.551.30.39152.4

Citation

@misc{zhu2026eupe,
  title={Efficient Universal Perception Encoder},
  author={Zhu, Chenchen and Suri, Saksham and Jose, Cijo and Oquab, Maxime and Szafraniec, Marc and Wen, Wei and Xiong, Yunyang and Labatut, Patrick and Bojanowski, Piotr and Krishnamoorthi, Raghuraman and Chandra, Vikas},
  year={2026},
  eprint={2603.22387},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.CV},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22387},
}
@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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