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.
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.
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).
@misc{zhai2023sigmoid,
title={Sigmoid Loss for Language Image Pre-Training},
author={Xiaohua Zhai and Basil Mustafa and Alexander Kolesnikov and Lucas Beyer},
year={2023},
eprint={2303.15343},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
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