alt.freeweights.vision / ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256
From: timm <huggingface.co/timm>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.visionSubject:

ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: da94269Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Zero shot image classification model. Safetensors weights, 7.09 GB in all. Published by timm under Apache-2.0.

vision7.09GBViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256safetensorspermissive
FactsParamsnot statedSize7.09 GBFormatssafetensorsTaskzero shot image classificationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256
# manifest sha256 02cde3ef5909… · 7.09 GB · 8 files
$ fw verify ./ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256 timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256
From sourceHosted (signed)timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256Last check: 2026-11-15 02:34 UTC

Get help: custom fine-tune or private deploy. We review your setup before we quote.

Works with

Runs with

Ranked by fit to this model (safetensors), then by GitHub stars.

Overview

Size
7.09 GB
Weights
3.53 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
not stated
Formats
safetensors
Task
zero shot image classification
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
8, each with a sha256
Publisher
timm
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.vision
Lineage

Original release from the publisher.

Where these bytes come from
Publisher at the pinned commit→You

Sources are tried in order. A file counts only when its size and sha256 match the manifest. Sources are checked when you ask for them, not on a timer.

Sources
BadgeHostLast checkResult
From sourcehuggingface.co2026-11-15 02:34 UTCpassed

Model card

From the publisher at commit da94269. Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.

Model card for ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256#

Model Details#

A SigLIP 2 Vision-Lanuage model trained on WebLI.

This model has been converted for use in OpenCLIP from the original JAX checkpoints in Big Vision.

Model Details#

Model Usage#

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 >= 2.31.0, timm >= 1.0.15

model, preprocess = create_model_from_pretrained('hf-hub:timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256')
tokenizer = get_tokenizer('hf-hub:timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256')

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, normalize=True)
    text_features = model.encode_text(text, normalize=True)
    text_probs = torch.sigmoid(image_features @ text_features.T * model.logit_scale.exp() + model.logit_bias)

zipped_list = list(zip(labels_list, [100 * round(p.item(), 3) for p in text_probs[0]]))
print("Label probabilities: ", zipped_list)

Citation#

@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}
}        
@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 · 7.09 GBWeights 3.53 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 8 files with their sha256
FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.57 KB34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md3.02 KBe5c5f67ea47deaf151be657c21ba1e10e1a7d672a044c73a6dcece0f0d64ab3a
open_clip_config.json951 B11fd795fbec21d151ff5948457a8b97e16b5018d0a846cae8ccdd705ced280a2
open_clip_model.safetensors3.53 GBcc0aca8f4ed217d87d61302f0d9cbe634a9987c485ea8fe35d5fb5ce339042d0
open_clip_pytorch_model.bin3.53 GB289e10db9050a9990bac0ecb229c1b4c516b9a2efb37acf3fdcb1002634b7718
special_tokens_map.json327 Bd4671afd8f9b1ccd170443bd5478c0cc40fdbddc9343034caf6984ffd388b2c4
tokenizer.json34.4 MB220c63d496e0c14e63eb656c91e0215e926202e4c74b1f089e09f1920d779b04
tokenizer_config.json46.4 KB513e778583a9ac0b74ae47784216f9d654d5132eee62d777597f5e842701323c
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
da9426945c pinned now2026-11-15 02:34 UTC8 files · 7.09 GB

Use it

$ fw get timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256
# manifest sha256 02cde3ef5909… · 7.09 GB · 8 files
$ fw verify ./ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256 timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256.json --dir ./ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256 $ python3 fw.py verify ./ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256 ./timm__ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256 --revision da9426945c7c5acbd3afd0c158c8bb9cfd4d8cc0 --local-dir ./ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256

License

Name
Apache License 2.0
Id
Apache-2.0
Class
Permissive
Redistribution
yes
Listing
Hosted (signed)
Decided
License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15
Text in
README.md
Text sha256
e5c5f67ea47deaf151be657c21ba1e10e1a7d672a044c73a6dcece0f0d64ab3a
Terms gate
No extra terms beyond the license.

Read the license text

Licenses are checked against the license table. A custom license passes only after a person reads it.

Provenance

From: timm <huggingface.co/timm>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.visionSubject: ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256Date: 2026-11-15Commit: da94269Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256
Pinned commit
da9426945c7c5acbd3afd0c158c8bb9cfd4d8cc0
Manifest
ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
02cde3ef590911bcfc88914a99adbc6a4dc0079f36131bae2240185c52476299
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 02:34 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

A manifest whose signature fails must be rejected. A file whose size or sha256 does not match must be discarded. Verify a download

Model tree

No related models in this catalog.Nothing here lists this model as its parent, and it names no parent.
Get it
Download
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256
Open in Freeweights Studio

Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
From: dima806 <huggingface.co/dima806>Subject: ai_vs_real_image_detection
From: legekka <huggingface.co/legekka>Subject: AI-Anime-Image-Detector-ViT
From: onnx-community <huggingface.co/onnx-community>Subject: AI-Anime-Image-Detector-ViT-ONNX
From: AICodexLab <huggingface.co/AICodexLab>Subject: answerdotai-ModernBERT-base-ai-detector
From: onnx-community <huggingface.co/onnx-community>Subject: answerdotai-ModernBERT-base-ai-detector-ONNX
From: onnx-community <huggingface.co/onnx-community>Subject: bart-large-cnn-ONNX