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Radford and colleagues’ 2021 paper, “Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision,” is usually remembered simply as CLIP, and the compression loses the specific thing that made it a turning point rather than an incremental improvement. The method itself is not exotic: encode an image, encode its paired caption, and train both encoders so that the true pairing scores higher than every mismatched pairing drawn from the same batch. For a batch of B image-text pairs with normalised image embedding , text embedding , and a learned temperature , the symmetric form of the objective is
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