Equation 6 · Part 14 · One Model, Many Modalities: What Multimodal Systems Actually Share
Starting index or lower bound: i=1
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i=1 appears in the bound of this sum. The bound states where the repeated operation starts, ends, or which values it includes.
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Alignment is the step that made cross-modal retrieval work, and it has an unusually clean formulation. Contrastive language–image pretraining takes a batch of B image–text pairs, encodes each side separately into a normalised vector, and trains both encoders so that matched pairs score higher than mismatched ones. In its softmax form the objective is . with image embedding , text embedding , and a learned temperature . Radford and colleagues showed that this simple pre-training task, applied to 400 million image–text pairs collected from the internet, matched the accuracy of the original ResNet-50 on ImageNet zero-shot without using any of the 1.28 million…
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Σ adds a collection of terms. Π multiplies them. The lower and upper labels tell you which terms belong to the collection.
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- [1] Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision ↗
- [6] Sigmoid Loss for Language Image Pre-Training ↗
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