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Updating Clip to Prefer Descriptions over Captions (arxiv.org)
1 point by PaulHoule on Jun 26, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A tool that scores how well text matches an image was retrained so full descriptions—meant to replace a picture for blind users—score higher than captions that just add to it. The scores matched blind and low-vision people's judgments while keeping its general skills.

Abstract · Updating CLIP to Prefer Descriptions Over Captions

Although CLIPScore is a powerful generic metric that captures the similarity between a text and an image, it fails to distinguish between a caption that is meant to complement the information in an image and a description that is meant to replace an image entirely, e.g., for accessibility. We address this shortcoming by updating the CLIP model with the Concadia dataset to assign higher scores to descriptions than captions using parameter efficient fine-tuning and a loss objective derived from work on causal interpretability. This model correlates with the judgements of blind and low-vision people while preserving transfer capabilities and has interpretable structure that sheds light on the caption--description distinction.

Amir Zur, Elisa Kreiss, Karel D'Oosterlinck, Christopher Potts, Atticus Geiger
arXiv:2406.09458 · cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.CL · submitted Jun 12, 2024 · updated Oct 3, 2024
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