clip
CLIP - Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training
OpenAI's model that understands images from natural language.
When to use CLIP
Use when:
- Zero-shot image classification (no training data needed)
- Image-text similarity/matching
- Semantic image search
- Content moderation (detect NSFW, violence)
- Visual question answering
- Cross-modal retrieval (image→text, text→image)
Metrics:
- 25,300+ GitHub stars
- Trained on 400M image-text pairs
- Matches ResNet-50 on ImageNet (zero-shot)
- MIT License
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