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[GH-ISSUE #267] How is the text encoder initialized? #233

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opened 2026-10-31 21:12:46 +00:00 by bsakaguchi · 1 comment
bsakaguchi commented 2026-10-31 21:12:46 +00:00
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Originally created by @sarahESL on GitHub (Jul 17, 2022).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/openai/CLIP/issues/267

The paper mentions that the text encoder is a Transformer with the architecture modifications from GPT-2.
My question is: is the text encoder trained from scratch or is it initialized by the learned parameters from GPT-2?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Originally created by @sarahESL on GitHub (Jul 17, 2022). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/openai/CLIP/issues/267 The paper mentions that the text encoder is a Transformer with the architecture modifications from GPT-2. My question is: is the text encoder trained from scratch or is it initialized by the learned parameters from GPT-2? Thanks in advance for your answer.
bsakaguchi commented 2026-10-31 21:12:47 +00:00
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@jongwook commented on GitHub (Nov 17, 2022):

It's trained from scratch.

<!-- gh-comment-id:1319083209 --> @jongwook commented on GitHub (Nov 17, 2022): It's trained from scratch.
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