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ViT-B-16-SigLIP-256

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 149fecaSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Zero shot image classification model. Safetensors weights, 1.63 GB in all. Published by timm under Apache-2.0.

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zero shot image classification
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Model card for ViT-B-16-SigLIP-256#

A SigLIP (Sigmoid loss for Language-Image Pre-training) model trained on WebLI.

This model has been converted to PyTorch from the original JAX checkpoints in Big Vision. These weights are usable in both OpenCLIP (image + text) and timm (image only).

Model Details#

Model Usage#

With OpenCLIP#
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from urllib.request import urlopen
from PIL import Image
from open_clip import create_model_from_pretrained, get_tokenizer # works on open-clip-torch>=2.23.0, timm>=0.9.8

model, preprocess = create_model_from_pretrained('hf-hub:timm/ViT-B-16-SigLIP-256')
tokenizer = get_tokenizer('hf-hub:timm/ViT-B-16-SigLIP-256')

image = Image.open(urlopen(
    'https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/beignets-task-guide.png'
))
image = preprocess(image).unsqueeze(0)

labels_list = ["a dog", "a cat", "a donut", "a beignet"]
text = tokenizer(labels_list, context_length=model.context_length)

with torch.no_grad(), torch.cuda.amp.autocast():
    image_features = model.encode_image(image)
    text_features = model.encode_text(text)
    image_features = F.normalize(image_features, dim=-1)
    text_features = F.normalize(text_features, dim=-1)

    text_probs = torch.sigmoid(image_features @ text_features.T * model.logit_scale.exp() + model.logit_bias)

zipped_list = list(zip(labels_list, [round(p.item(), 3) for p in text_probs[0]]))
print("Label probabilities: ", zipped_list)
With timm (for image embeddings)#
from urllib.request import urlopen
from PIL import Image
import timm

image = Image.open(urlopen(
    'https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/beignets-task-guide.png'
))

model = timm.create_model(
    'vit_base_patch16_siglip_256',
    pretrained=True,
    num_classes=0,
)
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(image).unsqueeze(0))  # output is (batch_size, num_features) shaped tensor

Citation#

@article{zhai2023sigmoid,
  title={Sigmoid loss for language image pre-training},
  author={Zhai, Xiaohua and Mustafa, Basil and Kolesnikov, Alexander and Beyer, Lucas},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.15343},
  year={2023}
}
@misc{big_vision,
  author = {Beyer, Lucas and Zhai, Xiaohua and Kolesnikov, Alexander},
  title = {Big Vision},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/google-research/big_vision}}
}

Files

8 files · 1.63 GBWeights 813 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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README.md3.16 KBbf37b7508808400509058d2036095737200b508bbd6d6e795d5d1090bb539d05
open_clip_config.json885 B83bbad85cfeb8411df0d7acd26069a04fedb5d5165f11a92fe6a58e18d5fa898
open_clip_model.safetensors813 MB2a45a604e8740e38ec61167cb0a7338bf2681ebe74085da8bedb1098ec7d83e4
open_clip_pytorch_model.bin813 MBa404e7712d3374c3c8f9acd7ee5a83da0bcce2fe6e4c66253ef83d7fed6e791b
special_tokens_map.json2.20 KB3a60d3bb0808e7e629845031c2d720d33c2aceee1a6c535255de15d45b9f1ac7
tokenizer.json2.42 MB83051c8005acc696637fe0c62c711ecee4b59083b4cf07ff9ad5f637eb2a3d2a
tokenizer_config.json20.6 KB8571e0cf70f7ae095c5c544ab94b7967e94c79262202d61604da10cbe426cecb
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From: timm <huggingface.co/timm>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.visionSubject: ViT-B-16-SigLIP-256Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 149fecaSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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