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Microsoft Research· Naoto Usuyama, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Tristan Naumann·· 2026-09-01AI score46

GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models

GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models

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Microsoft Research released GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash, using knowledge distillation to compress the billion-parameter GigaPath encoder into a 22M-parameter ViT-S encoder, with performance within 3% of the original model at roughly 50x lower compute.

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