Summary of Synthclip: Are We Ready For a Fully Synthetic Clip Training?, by Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud et al.
SynthCLIP: Are We Ready for a Fully Synthetic CLIP Training?
by Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Hani Itani, Fabio Pizzati, Philip Torr, Adel Bibi, Bernard Ghanem
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary SynthCLIP is a CLIP model trained on entirely synthetic text-image pairs, leveraging recent text-to-image networks and large language models. The authors generate synthetic datasets of images and captions at scale without human intervention, providing insights into the data generation strategy, sample requirements, scaling trends, and resulting properties. The work introduces SynthCI-30M, a purely synthetic dataset comprising 30 million captioned images. The code, trained models, and data are released as open source. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary SynthCLIP is a special kind of computer program that can match pictures with words. To make this possible, the scientists created huge amounts of fake picture-word pairs without needing any human help. They did this by using other programs that could turn text into pictures and large language models that know lots of words. The researchers studied how well this worked and found out what makes it good or bad. They even created a massive dataset with 30 million pictures and captions. This work is important because it can help computers understand us better. |
