TLDR AI · RESEARCH & INNOVATION

SIGMOID LOSS FOR LANGUAGE IMAGE PRETRAINING

arxiv.org30 min read

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CLIP was somewhat revolutionary for computer vision. It has some extremely clever algorithmic tricks (e.g., large in-batch negatives) that make it perform well. This paper questions many of those tricks and finds a simpler training setup that outperforms CLIP for the same task.