Embeddings & Vector SearchXiaohua Zhai et al. (Google DeepMind)Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind researchers present SigLIP

Presented SigLIP — uses a pairwise sigmoid loss without softmax normalization, decoupling batch size from the loss

Why it matters

The de facto successor to CLIP in multimodal embeddings. Removing the need for very large batches greatly lowered the barrier to training

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15343

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