2 papers
cs.CV2026
Franca: Nested Matryoshka Clustering for Scalable Visual Representation Learning
Shashanka Venkataramanan, Valentinos Pariza, Mohammadreza Salehi +5
We present Franca (pronounced Fran-ka): free one; the first fully open-source (data, code, weights) vision foundation model that matches and in many cases surpasses the performance…
cs.CV2025
Near, far: Patch-ordering enhances vision foundation models' scene understanding
Valentinos Pariza, Mohammadreza Salehi, Gertjan Burghouts +2
We introduce NeCo: Patch Neighbor Consistency, a novel self-supervised training loss that enforces patch-level nearest neighbor consistency across a student and teacher model. Comp…