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Equation 5 · Part 14 · A History of Multimodal AI

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L=−12B∑i=1B[log⁡exp⁡(⟨ui,vi⟩/τ)∑j=1Bexp⁡(⟨ui,vj⟩/τ)+log⁡exp⁡(⟨ui,vi⟩/τ)∑j=1Bexp⁡(⟨uj,vi⟩/τ)],\mathcal{L} = -\frac{1}{2B}\sum_{i=1}^{B}\left[\log\frac{\exp(\langle u_i, v_i\rangle/\tau)}{\sum_{j=1}^{B}\exp(\langle u_i, v_j\rangle/\tau)} + \log\frac{\exp(\langle u_i, v_i\rangle/\tau)}{\sum_{j=1}^{B}\exp(\langle u_j, v_i\rangle/\tau)}\right],
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A raised number can be a power. When it is a label or bound, it selects a case or the upper limit of a sum; the formula’s structure distinguishes these uses.

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A raised mark can be a power or an index. Its position and the surrounding notation determine which.

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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 uiu_i , text embedding viv_i , and a learned temperature τ\tau , the symmetric form of the objective is L=−12B∑i=1B[log⁡exp⁡(⟨ui,vi⟩/τ)∑j=1Bexp⁡(⟨ui,vj⟩/τ)+log⁡exp⁡(⟨ui,vi⟩/τ)∑j=1Bexp⁡(⟨uj,vi⟩/τ)]\mathcal{L} = -\frac{1}{2B}\sum_{i=1}^{B}\left[\log\frac{\exp(\langle u_i, v_i\rangle/\tau)}{\sum_{j=1}^{B}\exp(\langle u_i, v_j\rangle/\tau)} + \log\frac{\exp(\langle u_i, v_i\rangle/\tau)}{\sum_{j=1}^{B}\exp(\langle u_j, v_i\rangle/\tau)}\right]. an image-to-text and a text-to-image cross-entropy…

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