Ant Group released LingBot-Vision: DINO-family vision backbones in 4 sizes, and the 0.3B ViT-L matches DINOv3-7B on NYUv2 depth with ~23x fewer params
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Ant Group released LingBot-Vision, a family of DINO-style vision backbones in 4 sizes; the 0.3B ViT-L matches DINOv3-7B on NYUv2 depth with ~23x fewer parameters, showcasing significant efficiency gains.
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