Multi-modal language-vision models trained on hundreds of millions of image-text pairs (e.g. CLIP, DALL-E) gained a recent surge, showing remarkable capability to perform zero- or few-shot learning and transfer even in absence of per-sample labels on target image data. Despite this trend, to date there has been no publicly available datasets of sufficient scale for training such models from scratch. To address this issue, in a community effort we build and release for public LAION-400M, a dataset with CLIP-filtered 400 million image-text pairs, their CLIP embeddings and kNN indices that allow efficient similarity search.
@article{arxiv.2111.02114,
title = {LAION-400M: Open Dataset of CLIP-Filtered 400 Million Image-Text Pairs},
author = {Christoph Schuhmann and Richard Vencu and Romain Beaumont and Robert Kaczmarczyk and Clayton Mullis and Aarush Katta and Theo Coombes and Jenia Jitsev and Aran Komatsuzaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.02114},
year = {2021}
}
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Short version. Accepted at Data Centric AI NeurIPS Workshop 2021