Disclaimer: The team releasing SigLIP did not write a model card for this model so this model card has been written by the Hugging Face team.
Model description
SigLIP is CLIP, a multimodal model, with a better loss function. The sigmoid loss operates solely on image-text pairs and does not require a global view of the pairwise similarities for normalization. This allows further scaling up the batch size, while also performing better at smaller batch sizes.
A TLDR of SigLIP by one of the authors can be found here.
Intended uses & limitations
You can use the raw model for tasks like zero-shot image classification and image-text retrieval. See the model hub to look for
other versions on a task that interests you.
How to use
Here is how to use this model to perform zero-shot image classification:
python
1from PIL import Image
2import requests
3from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModel
4import torch
56model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384")7processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384")89url ="http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"10image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)1112texts =["a photo of 2 cats","a photo of 2 dogs"]13inputs = processor(text=texts, images=image, padding="max_length", return_tensors="pt")1415with torch.no_grad():16 outputs = model(**inputs)1718logits_per_image = outputs.logits_per_image
19probs = torch.sigmoid(logits_per_image)# these are the probabilities20print(f"{probs[0][0]:.1%} that image 0 is '{texts[0]}'")
Alternatively, one can leverage the pipeline API which abstracts away the complexity for the user:
Images are resized/rescaled to the same resolution (384x384) and normalized across the RGB channels with mean (0.5, 0.5, 0.5) and standard deviation (0.5, 0.5, 0.5).
Texts are tokenized and padded to the same length (64 tokens).
Compute
The model was trained on 16 TPU-v4 chips for three days.
Evaluation results
Evaluation of SigLIP compared to CLIP is shown below (taken from the paper).
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BibTeX entry and citation info
bibtex
1@misc{zhai2023sigmoid,
2 title={Sigmoid Loss for Language Image Pre-Training},
3 author={Xiaohua Zhai and Basil Mustafa and Alexander Kolesnikov and Lucas Beyer},
4 year={2023},
5 eprint={2303.15343},
6 archivePrefix={arXiv},
7 primaryClass={cs.CV}
8}