Caption bootstrapping (CapFilt)

How this idea evolved

Each step is the idea’s introducing paper. The line between steps is the citation link between those papers.

1. 2019
   Billion-scale semi-supervisedTeacher–student self-training

   A teacher labels a huge unlabelled pool; a student learns from those pseudo-labels.

   No direct link between these papers in this dataset
2. 2022
   BLIPCaption bootstrapping (CapFilt)

   Generate synthetic captions for web images and filter noisy ones, then retrain on cleaner data.