---
license: other
license_name: nvidia-open-model-license
license_link: >-
  https://huggingface.co./nvidia/C-RADIO/resolve/main/nvidia-open-model-license-agreement-june-2024.pdf
library_name: transformers
---

# Model Overview

## Description:
This model performs visual feature extraction.
For instance, RADIO generates image embeddings that can be used by a downstream model to classify images.

### License/Terms of Use

[License] This model is governed by the [NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/licenses/nvidia-open-model-license-agreement-june-2024.pdf).

## References:

[**AM-RADIO: Agglomerative Vision Foundation Model - Reduce All Domains Into One**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06709)

[**PHI-S: Distribution Balancing for Label-Free Multi-Teacher Distillation**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01680)

[**RADIO Amplified: Improved Baselines for Agglomerative Vision Foundation Models**](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.07679)


## Model Architecture:
**Architecture Type:** Neural Network  <br>
**Network Architecture:** Vision Transformer <br>

## Input:
**Input Type(s):** Image <br>
**Input Format(s):** Red, Green, Blue (RGB) pixel values in [0, 1] range. <br>
**Input Parameters:** Two Dimensional (2D) <br>
**Other Properties Related to Input:** Image resolutions up to 2048x2028 in increments of 16 pixels <br>

## Output:
**Output Type(s):** Embeddings <br>
**Output Format:** Tensor <br>
**Output Parameters:** 2D <br>
**Other Properties Related to Output:** Downstream model required to leverage image features <br>

## Usage:

RADIO will return a tuple with two tensors.
The `summary` is similar to the `cls_token` in ViT and is meant to represent the general concept of the entire image.
It has shape `(B,C)` with `B` being the batch dimension, and `C` being some number of channels.
The `spatial_features` represent more localized content which should be suitable for dense tasks such as semantic segmentation, or for integration into an LLM.

```python
import torch
from PIL import Image
from transformers import AutoModel, CLIPImageProcessor

hf_repo = "nvidia/C-RADIO"

image_processor = CLIPImageProcessor.from_pretrained(hf_repo)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(hf_repo, trust_remote_code=True)
model.eval().cuda()

image = Image.open('./assets/radio.png').convert('RGB')
pixel_values = image_processor(images=image, return_tensors='pt', do_resize=True).pixel_values
pixel_values = pixel_values.cuda()

summary, features = model(pixel_values)
```

Spatial features have shape `(B,T,D)` with `T` being the flattened spatial tokens, and `D` being the channels for spatial features. Note that `C!=D` in general.
Converting to a spatial tensor format can be done using the downsampling size of the model, combined with the input tensor shape. For RADIO, the patch size is 16.

```Python
from einops import rearrange
spatial_features = rearrange(spatial_features, 'b (h w) d -> b d h w', h=x.shape[-2] // patch_size, w=x.shape[-1] // patch_size)
```

The resulting tensor will have shape `(B,D,H,W)`, as is typically seen with computer vision models.


## Software Integration:
**Runtime Engine(s):**
* TAO- 24.10 <br>

**Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:** <br>
* NVIDIA Ampere <br>
* NVIDIA Blackwell <br>
* NVIDIA Jetson  <br>
* NVIDIA Hopper <br>
* NVIDIA Lovelace <br>
* NVIDIA Pascal <br>
* NVIDIA Turing <br>
* NVIDIA Volta <br>

**[Preferred/Supported] Operating System(s):** <br>
* Linux
* Linux 4 Tegra
* QNX
* Windows

## Model Version(s):
C-RADIO.

**Link:** https://huggingface.co./nvidia/C-RADIO

# Training, Testing, and Evaluation Datasets:

## Training Dataset:

NV-CC-Img-Text-Dataset  <br>
** Data Collection Method by dataset <br>
* Automated <br>
** Labeling Method by dataset <br>
* Not Applicable (no labels are needed) <br>
**Properties:** 700 Million Images <br>

## Evaluation Dataset:
**Link:** [ImageNet](https://www.image-net.org/)  <br>
** Data Collection Method by dataset <br>
* Automated <br>
** Labeling Method by dataset <br>
* Human <br>

**Properties:** This dataset spans 1000 object classes and contains 1,281,167 training images, 50,000 validation images and 100,000 test images.<br>

## Inference:
**Engine:** PyTorch <br>
**Test Hardware:** A100 <br>

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