License and commercial use

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DINOv3 ViT-L/16

Original model by Meta AI: facebookresearch/dinov3

Vision backbone for dense visual features (ViT-L, patch 16). Built with DINOv3.

Model Card

This repository hosts DINOv3 ViT-L/16 pretrained on LVD-1689M: a Vision Transformer (ViT-L, patch size 16) distilled from the DINOv3 ViT-7B teacher. It produces dense visual features suitable for classification, retrieval, segmentation, and other vision tasks without fine-tuning.

Model Details

This model takes an image as input and returns a class token, patch tokens, and register tokens. For a 224×224 image: 1 class token + 4 register tokens + 196 patch tokens = 201 tokens. Inputs can be larger provided dimensions are multiples of 16; otherwise the image is cropped to the nearest smaller multiple.

Model Description

• Original model: Meta AI (DINOv3)
• Model type: Vision Transformer (ViT-L/16)
• License: DINOv3 License

Model Sources

• Repository: https://github.com/facebookresearch/dinov3
• Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10104

Uses

This model is a vision backbone providing multi-purpose features for downstream tasks.

Direct Use

The model can be used without fine-tuning, with downstream classifiers as simple as linear layers, to obtain competitive results:

• on image classification, using k-NN classifiers on the class token
• on image classification, with logistic regression classifiers applied on the class token
• on image classification, with a linear layer applied on the class token and the average of the patch tokens
• on image retrieval using nearest neighbors
• on geometric and semantic 3D keypoint correspondances
• on depth estimation, semantic segmentation, using linear layers
• on unsupervised object discovery
• on video segmentation tracking
• on video classification, using a small 4-layer attentive probe

Downstream Use

Fine-tuning can yield additional gains but is optional; frozen features are typically strong out-of-the-box.

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

Compared to DINOv2 and SEERv2, DINOv3 delivers somewhat consistent performance across income categories on geographical fairness and diversity, although with a notable performance drop in the low-income bucket compared to the highest-income bucket.

DINOv3 also achieves relatively good scores across different regions, improving over its predecessor DINOv2. However, a relative difference is still observed between Europe and Africa.

Evaluation

Representative results for DINOv3 ViT-L/16 (LVD-1689M) from the paper:

See the paper for evaluation protocols and full benchmarks.

Technical Specifications

• Architecture: ViT-L (300M parameters), patch size 16, embedding dimension 1024, 4 register tokens, 16 heads, MLP FFN, RoPE

More Information

More on DINOv3: blog, project page.

Citation

BibTeX

@misc{simeoni2025dinov3,
  title={{DINOv3}},
  author={Sim{\'e}oni, Oriane and Vo, Huy V. and Seitzer, Maximilian and Baldassarre, Federico and Oquab, Maxime and Jose, Cijo and Khalidov, Vasil and Szafraniec, Marc and Yi, Seungeun and Ramamonjisoa, Micha{\"e}l and Massa, Francisco and Haziza, Daniel and Wehrstedt, Luca and Wang, Jianyuan and Darcet, Timoth{\'e}e and Moutakanni, Th{\'e}o and Sentana, Leonel and Roberts, Claire and Vedaldi, Andrea and Tolan, Jamie and Brandt, John and Couprie, Camille and Mairal, Julien and J{\'e}gou, Herv{\'e} and Labatut, Patrick and Bojanowski, Piotr},
  year={2025},
  eprint={2508.10104},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.CV},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10104},
}

DINOv3 by Meta. Use subject to the DINOv3 License.