Viral TDV Paper Questioned Over Weakened Baselines and Scalability

Researchers including @gabriberton have questioned the viral TDV paper "You Don't Need Strong Assumptions," arguing that it only compares against weakened versions of iBOT and DINO and fails to scale to larger datasets, undermining its conclusions.

2026-11-07 ~ 2026-11-07 · 3 related posts

• Viral TDV paper criticized: only beats nerfed iBOT/DINO baselines, doesn't scale — gabriberton · 2026-11-07

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