[GH-ISSUE #118] what text you use in (image, text) pairs #108

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Originally created by @CastleCC on GitHub (Jun 19, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/openai/CLIP/issues/118

Thanks for this amazing work.

This is a question related to the paper, In paper section 8, "CLIP only uses full text sequences co-occuring with images as supervision rather than just the queries". I am curious what “full text sequences” refer to, the image google title or the webpage text along with the image, or other text.

Originally created by @CastleCC on GitHub (Jun 19, 2021). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/openai/CLIP/issues/118 Thanks for this amazing work. This is a question related to the paper, In paper section 8, "CLIP only uses full text sequences co-occuring with images as supervision rather than just the queries". I am curious what “full text sequences” refer to, the image google title or the webpage text along with the image, or other text.
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@jongwook commented on GitHub (Jun 30, 2021):

The dataset is a mixture of image-text pairs from various sources. The "full text sequences" are usually title + description concatenated using whatever is available about the image, usually being a sentence or two and not the whole webpage. Similar work from google (ALIGN) uses alt texts.

<!-- gh-comment-id:871263743 --> @jongwook commented on GitHub (Jun 30, 2021): The dataset is a mixture of image-text pairs from various sources. The "full text sequences" are usually title + description concatenated using whatever is available about the image, usually being a sentence or two and not the whole webpage. Similar work from google [(ALIGN)](https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/05/align-scaling-up-visual-and-vision.html) uses alt texts.
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