DINOv2: self-supervised visual features

Posted 17 Oct 2026

A family of vision transformer backbones trained without labels. Their features are good enough that a simple linear head often works for classification, depth or segmentation, with no fine-tuning.

OrganizationMeta AI (FAIR)
Released2023
SizesViT-S/14 to ViT-g/14 (21M to 1.1B)
LicenseApache-2.0 (core models)
  • Smaller models are distilled from the largest ViT-g
  • "With registers" variants give cleaner attention maps
  • Some add-on models in the same repo (Cell-DINO, XRay-DINO) are non-commercial; check before use

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FrameworkPyTorch (torch.hub)
VisionNLP