C-RADIOv4 (Tech Report)

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Main Authors: Ranzinger, Mike, Heinrich, Greg, McCarthy, Collin, Kautz, Jan, Tao, Andrew, Catanzaro, Bryan, Molchanov, Pavlo
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Published: 2026
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author Ranzinger, Mike
Heinrich, Greg
McCarthy, Collin
Kautz, Jan
Tao, Andrew
Catanzaro, Bryan
Molchanov, Pavlo
author_facet Ranzinger, Mike
Heinrich, Greg
McCarthy, Collin
Kautz, Jan
Tao, Andrew
Catanzaro, Bryan
Molchanov, Pavlo
contents By leveraging multi-teacher distillation, agglomerative vision backbones provide a unified student model that retains and improves the distinct capabilities of multiple teachers. In this tech report, we describe the most recent release of the C-RADIO family of models, C-RADIOv4, which builds upon AM-RADIO/RADIOv2.5 in design, offering strong improvements on key downstream tasks at the same computational complexity. We release -SO400M (412M params), and -H (631M) model variants, both trained with an updated set of teachers: SigLIP2, DINOv3, and SAM3. In addition to improvements on core metrics and new capabilities from imitating SAM3, the C-RADIOv4 model family further improves any-resolution support, brings back the ViTDet option for drastically enhanced efficiency at high-resolution, and comes with a permissive license.
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spellingShingle C-RADIOv4 (Tech Report)
Ranzinger, Mike
Heinrich, Greg
McCarthy, Collin
Kautz, Jan
Tao, Andrew
Catanzaro, Bryan
Molchanov, Pavlo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
By leveraging multi-teacher distillation, agglomerative vision backbones provide a unified student model that retains and improves the distinct capabilities of multiple teachers. In this tech report, we describe the most recent release of the C-RADIO family of models, C-RADIOv4, which builds upon AM-RADIO/RADIOv2.5 in design, offering strong improvements on key downstream tasks at the same computational complexity. We release -SO400M (412M params), and -H (631M) model variants, both trained with an updated set of teachers: SigLIP2, DINOv3, and SAM3. In addition to improvements on core metrics and new capabilities from imitating SAM3, the C-RADIOv4 model family further improves any-resolution support, brings back the ViTDet option for drastically enhanced efficiency at high-resolution, and comes with a permissive license.
title C-RADIOv4 (Tech Report)
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17237