Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 18

DistillPath: An Efficient 22M Distilled Pathology Encoder Approaching Large Foundation Model Performance

DistillPath-KS16 is a 22‑million‑parameter ViT‑S/16 pathology encoder distilled from larger teachers ranging from 86 M to 1.1 B parameters. By training only on the teachers’ final class and patch tokens across 6,000 public slides, it avoids costly pretraining heads and large tile corpora, yet surpasses the kaiko baseline on EVA, HEST, and PLISM benchmarks. The strongest variant, DistillPath-KS16‑Virchow2, achieves a mean EVA score of 0.795—just 0.015 points below the top model—while being 29× smaller and 25× faster.

arXiv AI
Aug 28

LeVJEPA: Efficient & Scalable Video Pretraining without the Heuristics

LeVJEPA is a video encoder that eliminates the need for architectural asymmetries, exponential-moving-average target encoders, stop-gradients, and capacity-limited predictors used in prior self‑supervised methods. It trains a single encoder with an invariance loss over global and local views, regularized by SIGReg to prevent collapse, and achieves strong performance with far less pretraining compute. The approach also allows block‑causal attention, making temporal ordering a property of the encoder itself, and matches or surpasses state‑of‑the‑art baselines on both appearance‑centric and motion‑centric benchmarks.

By Lukas Kuhn, Lucas Maes, Giuseppe Serra, Quentin Le Lidec, Yann LeCun, Randall Balestriero, Florian Buettner