openai/clip-vit-large-patch14

zero-shot-image-classification model by openai

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Disclaimer: The model card is taken and modified from the official CLIP repository, it can be found here. The CLIP model was developed by researchers at OpenAI to learn about what contributes to robustness in computer vision tasks. The model was also developed to test the ability of models to generalize to arbitrary image classification tasks in a zero-shot manner. It was not developed for general model deployment - to deploy models like CLIP, researchers will first need to carefully study their capabilities in relation to the specific context they’re being deployed within. January 2021 The base model uses a ViT-L/14 Transformer architecture as an image encoder and uses a masked self-attention Transformer as a text encoder. These encoders are trained to maximize the similarity of (image, text) pairs via a contrastive loss. The original implementation had two variants: one using a ResNet image encoder and the other using a…

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openai/clip-vit-large-patch14 is a zero-shot-image-classification model repository published by openai on Hugging Face. The source reports the transformers library.

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Task
zero-shot-image-classification
Library
transformers
Recent downloads (30 days)
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CLIPModel
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Created
2022-03-02T23:29:05.000Z
Last modified
2023-09-15T15:49:35.000Z

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