LLM2CLIP: Powerful Language Model Unlocks Richer Cross-Modality Representation

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Autori principali: Huang, Weiquan, Wu, Aoqi, Yang, Yifan, Luo, Xufang, Yang, Yuqing, Naseem, Usman, Wang, Chunyu, Dai, Qi, Dai, Xiyang, Chen, Dongdong, Luo, Chong, Qiu, Lili, Hu, Liang
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author Huang, Weiquan
Wu, Aoqi
Yang, Yifan
Luo, Xufang
Yang, Yuqing
Naseem, Usman
Wang, Chunyu
Wang, Chunyu
Dai, Qi
Dai, Xiyang
Chen, Dongdong
Luo, Chong
Qiu, Lili
Hu, Liang
author_facet Huang, Weiquan
Wu, Aoqi
Yang, Yifan
Luo, Xufang
Yang, Yuqing
Naseem, Usman
Wang, Chunyu
Wang, Chunyu
Dai, Qi
Dai, Xiyang
Chen, Dongdong
Luo, Chong
Qiu, Lili
Hu, Liang
contents CLIP is a seminal multimodal model that maps images and text into a shared representation space through contrastive learning on billions of image-caption pairs. Inspired by the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), we investigate how the superior linguistic understanding and broad world knowledge of LLMs can further strengthen CLIP, particularly in handling long and complex captions. We introduce an efficient fine-tuning framework that embeds an LLM into a pretrained CLIP while incurring nearly the same training cost as standard CLIP fine-tuning. Our method first converts the LLM into an embedding-compatible form for the CLIP setting, and then couples it with the pretrained CLIP vision encoder through a lightweight adaptor trained on only a few million image-caption pairs. With this strategy, we achieve large performance gains without large-scale retraining, outperforming state-of-the-art CLIP variants such as EVA02 and SigLIP-2. The LLM-enhanced CLIP delivers consistent improvements across a wide range of downstream tasks, including linear-probe classification, zero-shot image-text retrieval with both short and long captions (in English and other languages), zero-shot and supervised image segmentation, object detection, and serving as a tokenizer backbone for multimodal large-model benchmarks. Code and models are available at: https://aka.ms/llm2clip
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spellingShingle LLM2CLIP: Powerful Language Model Unlocks Richer Cross-Modality Representation
Huang, Weiquan
Wu, Aoqi
Yang, Yifan
Luo, Xufang
Yang, Yuqing
Naseem, Usman
Wang, Chunyu
Wang, Chunyu
Dai, Qi
Dai, Xiyang
Chen, Dongdong
Luo, Chong
Qiu, Lili
Hu, Liang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
CLIP is a seminal multimodal model that maps images and text into a shared representation space through contrastive learning on billions of image-caption pairs. Inspired by the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), we investigate how the superior linguistic understanding and broad world knowledge of LLMs can further strengthen CLIP, particularly in handling long and complex captions. We introduce an efficient fine-tuning framework that embeds an LLM into a pretrained CLIP while incurring nearly the same training cost as standard CLIP fine-tuning. Our method first converts the LLM into an embedding-compatible form for the CLIP setting, and then couples it with the pretrained CLIP vision encoder through a lightweight adaptor trained on only a few million image-caption pairs. With this strategy, we achieve large performance gains without large-scale retraining, outperforming state-of-the-art CLIP variants such as EVA02 and SigLIP-2. The LLM-enhanced CLIP delivers consistent improvements across a wide range of downstream tasks, including linear-probe classification, zero-shot image-text retrieval with both short and long captions (in English and other languages), zero-shot and supervised image segmentation, object detection, and serving as a tokenizer backbone for multimodal large-model benchmarks. Code and models are available at: https://aka.ms/llm2clip
title LLM2CLIP: Powerful Language Model Unlocks Richer Cross-Modality Representation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04997