---
license: apache-2.0
tags:
  - image-classification
  - multi-label-classification
  - booru
  - tagger
  - danbooru
  - e621
  - dinov3
  - vit
pipeline_tag: image-classification
---

# DINOv3 ViT-H/16+ Booru Tagger

A multi-label image tagger trained on **e621** and **Danbooru** annotations, using a
[DINOv3 ViT-H/16+](https://huggingface.co/facebook/dinov3-vith16plus-pretrain-lvd1689m)
backbone fine-tuned end-to-end with a single linear projection head.

## Model Details

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Backbone | `facebook/dinov3-vith16plus-pretrain-lvd1689m` |
| Architecture | ViT-H/16+ · 32 layers · hidden dim 1280 · 20 heads · SwiGLU MLP · RoPE · 4 register tokens |
| Head | `Linear((1 + 4) × 1280 → 74 625)` — CLS + 4 register tokens concatenated |
| Vocabulary | **74 625 tags** (min frequency ≥ 50 across training set) |
| Input resolution | Any multiple of 16 px — trained at 512 px, generalises to higher resolutions |
| Input normalisation | ImageNet mean/std `[0.485, 0.456, 0.406]` / `[0.229, 0.224, 0.225]` |
| Output | Raw logits — apply `sigmoid` for per-tag probabilities |
| Parameters | ~632 M (backbone) + ~480 M (head) |

## Training

| Hyperparameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Training data | e621 + Danbooru (parquet) |
| Batch size | 32 |
| Learning rate | 1e-6 |
| Warmup steps | 50 |
| Loss | `BCEWithLogitsLoss` with per-tag `pos_weight = (neg/pos)^(1/T)`, cap 100 |
| Optimiser | AdamW (β₁=0.9, β₂=0.999, wd=0.01) |
| Precision | bfloat16 (backbone) / float32 (projection + loss) |
| Hardware | 2× GPU, ThreadPoolExecutor + NCCL all-reduce |

![eval_viz](./eval_viz.png)

## Usage

### 1. Install dependencies

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Or manually:

```bash
pip install torch torchvision safetensors Pillow requests \
            python-multipart fastapi uvicorn jinja2 aiofiles
```

### 2. Download model files

```bash
huggingface-cli download lodestones/taggerine \
    tagger_proto.safetensors \
    tagger_vocab_with_categories_and_alias_updated.json \
    tagger_ui_server.py \
    inference_tagger_standalone.py \
    --local-dir .
```

> **Note:** `tagger_proto.safetensors` is ~5.3 GB. Make sure you have enough disk space.

### 3. Download the `tagger_ui/` templates folder

The server requires the `tagger_ui/templates/` directory to be present alongside `tagger_ui_server.py`:

```bash
huggingface-cli download lodestones/taggerine \
    --include "tagger_ui/**" \
    --local-dir .
```

### 4. Run the Web UI

```bash
python tagger_ui_server.py \
    --checkpoint tagger_proto.safetensors \
    --vocab tagger_vocab_with_categories_and_alias_updated.json \
    --port 7860
# → open http://localhost:7860
```

**CPU-only machine?** Add `--device cpu` (inference will be slower):

```bash
python tagger_ui_server.py \
    --checkpoint tagger_proto.safetensors \
    --vocab tagger_vocab_with_categories_and_alias_updated.json \
    --device cpu \
    --port 7860
```

### Standalone CLI inference (no server)

```bash
python inference_tagger_standalone.py \
    --checkpoint tagger_proto.safetensors \
    --vocab tagger_vocab_with_categories_and_alias_updated.json \
    --images photo.jpg \
    --topk 30
```

## Files

| File | Description |
|---|---|
| `tagger_proto.safetensors` | Model weights (bfloat16) |
| `tagger_vocab_with_categories_and_alias_updated.json` | `{"idx2tag": [...], "tag2category": {...}}` — 74 625 tags with category metadata |
| `tagger_vocab_with_categories.json` | Same without alias data |
| `tagger_vocab.json` | Minimal vocab — `{"idx2tag": [...]}` only |
| `inference_tagger_standalone.py` | Self-contained CLI inference script (no `transformers` dep) |
| `tagger_ui_server.py` | FastAPI + Jinja2 web UI server |
| `requirements.txt` | Python dependencies |

## Tag Vocabulary

Tags are sourced from e621 and Danbooru annotations and cover:

- **Subject** — species, character count, gender (`solo`, `duo`, `anthro`, `1girl`, `male`, …)
- **Body** — anatomy, fur/scale/skin markings, body parts
- **Action / pose** — `looking at viewer`, `sitting`, …
- **Scene** — background, lighting, setting
- **Style** — `digital art`, `hi res`, `sketch`, `watercolor`, …
- **Rating** — explicit content tags are included; filter as needed for your use case

Minimum tag frequency threshold: **50** occurrences across the combined dataset.

## Limitations

- Evaluated on booru-style illustrations and furry art; performance on photographic images or other art works to some extend.
- The vocabulary reflects the biases of e621 and Danbooru annotation practices.

## License

Apache 2.0