Model reference · open weights
japanese-clip-v-b-16 is an open-weight embedding model from rinna. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Released by | rinna |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Task | Embeddings |
| Parameters (lead) | 197M |
| Context | 512 tokens |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2022-04-27 |
| Popularity | 37k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
This is a Japanese CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) model trained by rinna Co., Ltd..
Please see japanese-clip for the other available models.
$ pip install git+https://github.com/rinnakk/japanese-clip.git
import io
import requests
from PIL import Image
import torch
import japanese_clip as ja_clip
device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
model, preprocess = ja_clip.load("rinna/japanese-clip-vit-b-16", cache_dir="/tmp/japanese_clip", device=device)
tokenizer = ja_clip.load_tokenizer()
img = Image.open(io.BytesIO(requests.get('https://images.pexels.com/photos/2253275/pexels-photo-2253275.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=3&h=750&w=1260').content))
image = preprocess(img).unsqueeze(0).to(device)
encodings = ja_clip.tokenize(
texts=["犬", "猫", "象"],
max_seq_len=77,
device=device,
tokenizer=tokenizer, # this is optional. if you don't pass, load tokenizer each time
)
with torch.no_grad():
image_features = model.get_image_features(image)
text_features = model.get_text_features(**encodings)
text_probs = (100.0 * image_features @ text_features.T).softmax(dim=-1)
print("Label probs:", text_probs) # prints: [[1.0, 0.0, 0.0]]
The model was trained a ViT-B/16 Transformer architecture as an image encoder and uses a 12-layer BERT as a text encoder. The image encoder was initialized from the AugReg vit-base-patch16-224 model.
The model was trained on CC12M translated the captions to Japanese.
May 12, 2022
@misc{rinna-japanese-clip-vit-b-16,
title = {rinna/japanese-clip-vit-b-16},
author = {Shing, Makoto and Zhao, Tianyu and Sawada, Kei},
url = {https://huggingface.co/rinna/japanese-clip-vit-b-16}
}
@inproceedings{sawada2024release,
title = {Release of Pre-Trained Models for the {J}apanese Language},
author = {Sawada, Kei and Zhao, Tianyu and Shing, Makoto and Mitsui, Kentaro and Kaga, Akio and Hono, Yukiya and Wakatsuki, Toshiaki and Mitsuda, Koh},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)},
month = {5},
year = {2024},
pages = {13898--13905},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1213},
note = {\url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01657}}
}
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Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys japanese-clip-v-b-16 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (japanese-clip-v-b-16 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":"japanese-clip-v-b-16","input":"text to embed"}'
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