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zeromodels/deit_small_distilled_patch16_224_fb_in1k

Paper: Training data-efficient image transformers and distillation through attention (arXiv:2012.12877) · HF Papers

DeiT / DeiT3 are data-efficient ViT variants (distillation token in DeiT; improved training recipe in DeiT3). Same ImageClassify / Model API.

For more details on the model, please go to the upstream model card.

Pure-Keras 3 conversion of timm/deit_small_distilled_patch16_224.fb_in1k for zeromodels. One implementation runs unmodified on TensorFlow / Torch / JAX.

This is an image-classification / backbone checkpoint (DeiTImageClassify / DeiTModel).

✨ Quick start

import os

os.environ["KERAS_BACKEND"] = "torch"  # or "jax" / "tensorflow"

from PIL import Image
from zeromodels.models.deit import DeiTImageClassify, DeiTModel, DeiTImageProcessor

model = DeiTImageClassify.from_weights("zeromodels/deit_small_distilled_patch16_224_fb_in1k")
processor = DeiTImageProcessor.from_weights("zeromodels/deit_small_distilled_patch16_224_fb_in1k")

image = Image.open("your_image.jpg").convert("RGB")
pixels = processor(image)  # resize + normalize (normalization lives in the processor)
logits = model(pixels, training=False)
print(logits.shape)  # (1, num_classes)

# Feature extraction: the backbone without the classifier head
backbone = DeiTModel.from_weights("zeromodels/deit_small_distilled_patch16_224_fb_in1k", as_backbone=True)
features = backbone(pixels, training=False)

Load any DeiT variant the same way with from_weights("zeromodels/<variant>"):

Tips

• Set KERAS_BACKEND before importing Keras / zeromodels.
• DeiTImageClassify returns class logits; DeiTModel returns features (as_backbone=True for multi-scale stages).
• See docs and Loading Weights.
• Upstream / timm checkpoints: DeiTImageClassify.from_weights("hf:timm/deit_small_distilled_patch16_224.fb_in1k").

Special Thanks

A huge thank you to the DeiT authors and the timm / Hub communities for creating and releasing these models.

License: see YAML license (usually matches the upstream checkpoint).