GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models
# GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Towards population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models ## Abstract GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash are improved versions of GigaPath and GigaTIME, significantly reducing computational costs and making large-scale pathological research more accessible and practical. These models reduce computational requirements through distillation techniques while maintaining performance, enabling researchers to analyze larger patient populations. GigaPath is a pre-trained whole-tissue base model based on large-scale real-world pathological data, learning the global context of the entire tissue, not just local features. GigaTIME extends to tumor microenvironment modeling, utilizing multi-omics data from 40 million cells, and…