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20182025
most citedDINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision

1.1k citations · 1.7k across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

AstroMMBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models Capabilities in Astronomy

Jinghang Shi, Xiaoyu Tang, Yang Huang +4

Astronomical image interpretation presents a significant challenge for applying multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to specialized scientific tasks. Existing benchmarks focus…

cs.LG2025

Scaling Laws for Optimal Data Mixtures

Mustafa Shukor, Louis Bethune, Dan Busbridge +4

Large foundation models are typically trained on data from multiple domains, with the data mixture--the proportion of each domain used--playing a critical role in model performance…

cs.CV2025

Scaling Laws for Native Multimodal Models

Mustafa Shukor, Enrico Fini, Victor Guilherme Turrisi da Costa +3

Building general-purpose models that can effectively perceive the world through multimodal signals has been a long-standing goal. Current approaches involve integrating separately…

cs.CV2025

FlexTok: Resampling Images into 1D Token Sequences of Flexible Length

Roman Bachmann, Jesse Allardice, David Mizrahi +6

Image tokenization has enabled major advances in autoregressive image generation by providing compressed, discrete representations that are more efficient to process than raw pixel…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Multimodal Autoregressive Pre-training of Large Vision Encoders

Enrico Fini, Mustafa Shukor, Xiujun Li +13

We introduce a novel method for pre-training of large-scale vision encoders. Building on recent advancements in autoregressive pre-training of vision models, we extend this framewo…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models

Jeffrey Li, Alex Fang, Georgios Smyrnis +56

We introduce DataComp for Language Models (DCLM), a testbed for controlled dataset experiments with the goal of improving language models. As part of DCLM, we provide a standardize…

cs.CV2024★ 6 cited

Scalable Pre-training of Large Autoregressive Image Models

Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Michal Klein, Shuangfei Zhai +5

This paper introduces AIM, a collection of vision models pre-trained with an autoregressive objective. These models are inspired by their textual counterparts, i.e., Large Language…

cs.CV2023★ 14 cited

ImageBind: One Embedding Space To Bind Them All

Rohit Girdhar, Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Zhuang Liu +4

We present ImageBind, an approach to learn a joint embedding across six different modalities - images, text, audio, depth, thermal, and IMU data. We show that all combinations of p…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Are Visual Recognition Models Robust to Image Compression?

João Maria Janeiro, Stanislav Frolov, Alaaeldin El-Nouby +1

Reducing the data footprint of visual content via image compression is essential to reduce storage requirements, but also to reduce the bandwidth and latency requirements for trans…

cs.CV2023★ 1.1k cited

DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision

Maxime Oquab, Timothée Darcet, Théo Moutakanni +23

The recent breakthroughs in natural language processing for model pretraining on large quantities of data have opened the way for similar foundation models in computer vision. Thes…

eess.IV2023★ 7 cited

Improving Statistical Fidelity for Neural Image Compression with Implicit Local Likelihood Models

Matthew J. Muckley, Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Karen Ullrich +2

Lossy image compression aims to represent images in as few bits as possible while maintaining fidelity to the original. Theoretical results indicate that optimizing distortion metr…

cs.CV2022★ 12 cited

Image Compression with Product Quantized Masked Image Modeling

Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Matthew J. Muckley, Karen Ullrich +3

Recent neural compression methods have been based on the popular hyperprior framework. It relies on Scalar Quantization and offers a very strong compression performance. This contr…

cs.CV2022

OmniMAE: Single Model Masked Pretraining on Images and Videos

Rohit Girdhar, Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Mannat Singh +3

Transformer-based architectures have become competitive across a variety of visual domains, most notably images and videos. While prior work studies these modalities in isolation,…

cs.CV2022★ 8 cited

Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers

Hugo Touvron, Matthieu Cord, Alaaeldin El-Nouby +2

After their initial success in natural language processing, transformer architectures have rapidly gained traction in computer vision, providing state-of-the-art results for tasks…

cs.CV2021★ 30 cited

Augmenting Convolutional networks with attention-based aggregation

Hugo Touvron, Matthieu Cord, Alaaeldin El-Nouby +4

We show how to augment any convolutional network with an attention-based global map to achieve non-local reasoning. We replace the final average pooling by an attention-based aggre…

cs.CV2021★ 18 cited

Are Large-scale Datasets Necessary for Self-Supervised Pre-training?

Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Gautier Izacard, Hugo Touvron +3

Pre-training models on large scale datasets, like ImageNet, is a standard practice in computer vision. This paradigm is especially effective for tasks with small training sets, for…

cs.CV2021★ 234 cited

XCiT: Cross-Covariance Image Transformers

Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Hugo Touvron, Mathilde Caron +8

Following their success in natural language processing, transformers have recently shown much promise for computer vision. The self-attention operation underlying transformers yiel…

cs.CV2021★ 6 cited

ResMLP: Feedforward networks for image classification with data-efficient training

Hugo Touvron, Piotr Bojanowski, Mathilde Caron +8

We present ResMLP, an architecture built entirely upon multi-layer perceptrons for image classification. It is a simple residual network that alternates (i) a linear layer in which…

cs.CV2021★ 93 cited

LeViT: a Vision Transformer in ConvNet's Clothing for Faster Inference

Ben Graham, Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Hugo Touvron +4

We design a family of image classification architectures that optimize the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency in a high-speed regime. Our work exploits recent findings in at…

cs.CV2021★ 123 cited

Training Vision Transformers for Image Retrieval

Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Natalia Neverova, Ivan Laptev +1

Transformers have shown outstanding results for natural language understanding and, more recently, for image classification. We here extend this work and propose a transformer-base…

cs.CV2019★ 12 cited

Skip-Clip: Self-Supervised Spatiotemporal Representation Learning by Future Clip Order Ranking

Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Shuangfei Zhai, Graham W. Taylor +1

Deep neural networks require collecting and annotating large amounts of data to train successfully. In order to alleviate the annotation bottleneck, we propose a novel self-supervi…

cs.CV2018★ 1 cited

Tell, Draw, and Repeat: Generating and Modifying Images Based on Continual Linguistic Instruction

Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Shikhar Sharma, Hannes Schulz +5

Conditional text-to-image generation is an active area of research, with many possible applications. Existing research has primarily focused on generating a single image from avail…

cs.CV2018★ 9 cited

Real-Time End-to-End Action Detection with Two-Stream Networks

Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Graham W. Taylor

Two-stream networks have been very successful for solving the problem of action detection. However, prior work using two-stream networks train both streams separately, which preven…