# Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training

> Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) is a technique for training a pair of neural network models, one for image understanding and one for text understanding, using a contrastive objective. This method has enabled broad applications across multiple domains, including cross-modal retrieval, text-to-image generation, and aesthetic ranking. Algorithm The CLIP method trains a pair of models contrastively. […]

**Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training** (**CLIP**) is a technique for training a pair of neural network models, one for image understanding and one for text understanding, using a contrastive objective.

This method has enabled broad applications across multiple domains, including cross-modal retrieval, text-to-image generation, and aesthetic ranking.

## Algorithm

The CLIP method trains a pair of models contrastively. One model takes in a piece of text as input and outputs a single vector representing its semantic content. The other model takes in an image and similarly outputs a single vector representing its visual content. The models are trained so that the vectors corresponding to semantically similar text-image pairs are close together in the shared vector space, while those corresponding to dissimilar pairs are far apart.

To train a pair of CLIP models, one would start by preparing a large dataset of image-caption pairs. During training, the models are presented with batches of



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*Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrastive_Language-Image_Pre-training)*

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