alt.freeweights.vision / vit_small_patch8_224.dino
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vit_small_patch8_224.dino

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 35030b7Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Image feature extraction model with 22M parameters. Safetensors weights, 173 MB in all. Published by timm under Apache-2.0.

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Overview

Size
173 MB
Weights
86.7 MB (safetensors)
Parameters
22M
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Task
image feature extraction
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Apache-2.0 (permissive)
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timm
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Model card for vit_small_patch8_224.dino#

A Vision Transformer (ViT) image feature model. Trained with Self-Supervised DINO method.

Model Details#

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_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)
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_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

Model Comparison#

Explore the dataset and runtime metrics of this model in timm model results.

Citation#

@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}}
}

Files

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config.json577 B0ebd6248f1de14fe9dcafbd23c0705a3dfc7b6c0a9d43b11180ee215b062e942
model.safetensors86.7 MBe1b79616ce6d1b8dc3cc0d5952b6d0958356a189122882493e665d28f20654a0
pytorch_model.bin86.7 MB6f9f986e17efd79810ef82c1f951a1b9824a8db3ee127a7a329d817a3c5d3a7b
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From: timm <huggingface.co/timm>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.visionSubject: vit_small_patch8_224.dinoDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 35030b7Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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