A Deployment-Friendly Foundational Framework for Efficient Computational Pathology.

Yu Cai, Cheng Jin, Zhengyu Zhang, Jiabo Ma,Fengtao Zhou,Yingxue Xu, Zhengrui Guo, Yihui Wang, Ling Liang, Yonghao Tan, Pingcheng Dong, Du Cai, On Ki Tang, Chenglong Zhao, Zhijian Cen, Ying Tan, Xi Wang,Can Yang, Yali Xu, Jing Cui, Zhenhui Li,Ronald Cheong Kin Chan,Yueping Liu,Feng Gao, Xiuming Zhang,Li Liang,Hao Chen, Kwang-Ting Cheng

Computing Research Repository (CoRR)（2026）

Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

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Pathology foundation models (PFMs) generalize well across computational pathology tasks but remain costly for gigapixel whole-slide image analysis. Here, we present LitePath, a deployment-friendly framework that addresses model over-parameterization and patch-level redundancy. LitePath combines LiteFM, a compact model distilled from Virchow2, H-Optimus-1 and UNI2 using 190 million patches, with the Adaptive Patch Selector for task-specific patch selection. Compared with Virchow2, LitePath uses 28x fewer parameters and 403.5x fewer FLOPs. On an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super, it processes 208 slides per hour, 104.5x faster than Virchow2, and consumes 0.36 kWh per 3,000 slides, 171x less energy than Virchow2 on an RTX 3090 GPU. We evaluated LitePath on 45 multicenter cohorts across four organs and 33 tasks, comprising 37 classification and 8 survival cohorts, including 33 internal, 10 external and 2 prospective cohorts, with 17,837 slides from 9,977 patients disjoint from the pretraining data. Among 22 PFMs, LitePath achieved the best average rank (6.56 vs. 6.58 for Virchow2), retained 99.71

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