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clip-v-patch32

clip-v-patch32 is an open-weight embedding model from openai, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

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About

What clip-v-patch32 is

Model Card: CLIP Disclaimer: The model card is taken and modified from the official CLIP repository, it can be found here. Model Details 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. Model Date January 2021 Model Type The model uses a ViT-B/32 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 Vision Transformer. This repository has the variant with the Vision Transformer. Documents - Blog Post - CLIP Paper Use with Transformers Model Use Intended Use The model is intended as a research output for research communities. We hope that this model will enable researchers to better understand and explore zero-shot, arbitrary image classification. We also hope it can be used for interdisciplinary studies of the potential impact of such models - the CLIP paper includes a discussion of potential downstream impacts to provide an example for this sort of analysis. Primary intended uses The primary intended users of these models are AI researchers. We primarily imagine the model will be used by researchers to better understand robustness, generalization, and other capabilities, biases, and constraints of computer vision models. Out-of-Scope Use Cases Any deployed use case of the model - whether commercial or not - is currently out of scope. Non-deployed use cases such as image search in a constrained environment, are also not recommended unless there is thorough in-domain testing of the model with a specific, fixed class taxonomy. This is because our safety assessment demonstrated a high need for t

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makeropenai
TypeEmbedding models
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity20.4M downloads / month
Likes1,034
LicenceCommercial licence needed

How it works

How embedding models work

Your textsentence / documentEncodermaps meaningVectorlist of numbersAn embedding model turns text into a vector, so similar meanings sit close together — the basis of search and RAG.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
clip-vit-base-patch32BF16Weights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys clip-v-patch32 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (clip-v-patch32 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"clip-v-patch32","input":"text to embed"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

transformers pytorch tf jax clip zero-shot-image-classification vision endpoints_compatible

Papers

Licence

Commercial licence needed

The weights are open but its licence needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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