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japanese-clip-v-b-16

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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.

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What it is

Released byrinna
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Parameters (lead)197M
Context512 tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-04-27
Popularity37k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What japanese-clip-v-b-16 is

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.

Read the full model card

How to use the model

  1. Install package
$ pip install git+https://github.com/rinnakk/japanese-clip.git
  1. Run
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]]

Model architecture

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.

Training

The model was trained on CC12M translated the captions to Japanese.

Release date

May 12, 2022

How to cite

@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}}
}

License

The Apache 2.0 license

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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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