Unified image–text–label contrastive

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• Zero-shot transfer via text promptsCLIP · 2021cited directly

  Classify into unseen classes by comparing an image with text descriptions of them.

• Scaling on raw alt-textALIGN · 2021cited directly

  Skip expensive cleaning: a billion noisy alt-text pairs beat curated datasets.

• Vision foundation modelFlorence · 2021cited directly

  One large image–text model adapted to classification, retrieval, detection, video and more.