[Paper] [Citations] [Clip Colab] [Coca Colab]
Welcome to an open source implementation of OpenAI's CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training).
Using this codebase, we have trained several models on a variety of data sources and compute budgets, ranging from small-scale experiments to larger runs including models trained on datasets such as LAION-400M, LAION-2B and DataComp-1B. Many of our models and their scaling properties are studied in detail in the paper reproducible scaling laws for contrastive language-image learning. Some of our best models and their zero-shot ImageNet-1k accuracy are shown below, along with the ViT-L model trained by OpenAI. We provide more details about our full collection of pretrained models here, and zero-shot results for 38 datasets here.
Model | Training data | Resolution | # of samples seen | ImageNet zero-shot acc. |
---|---|---|---|---|
ConvNext-Base | LAION-2B | 256px | 13B | 71.5% |
ConvNext-Large | LAION-2B | 320px | 29B | 76.9% |
ConvNext-XXLarge | LAION-2B | 256px | 34B | 79.5% |
ViT-B/32 | DataComp-1B | 256px | 34B | 72.8% |
ViT-B/16 | DataComp-1B | 224px | 13B | 73.5% |
ViT-L/14 | LAION-2B | 224px | 32B | 75.3% |
ViT-H/14 | LAION-2B | 224px | 32B | 78.0% |
ViT-L/14 | DataComp-1B | 224px | 13B | 79.2% |
ViT-G/14 | LAION-2B | 224px | 34B | 80.1% |
ViT-L/14 | OpenAI's WIT | 224px | 13B | 75.5% |
Model cards with additional model specific details can be found on the Hugging Face Hub under the OpenCLIP library tag: https://huggingface.co/models?library=open_clip.
If you found this repository useful, please consider citing. We welcome anyone to submit an issue or send an email if you have any other requests or suggestions.
Note that portions of src/open_clip/
modelling and tokenizer code are adaptations of OpenAI's official repository.
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Image Credit: https://github.com/openai/CLIP |
pip install open_clip_torch
import torch
from PIL import Image
import open_clip
model, _, preprocess = open_clip.create_model_and_transforms('ViT-B-32', pretrained='laion2b_s34b_b79k')
tokenizer = open_clip.get_tokenizer('ViT-B-32')
image = preprocess(Image.open("CLIP.png")).unsqueeze(0)
text = tokenizer(["a diagram", "a dog", "a cat"])
with torch.no_grad(), torch.cuda.amp.autocast():
image_features = model.encode_image(image)
text_features = model.encode_text(text)
image_features /= image_features.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
text_features /= text_features.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
text_probs = (100.0 * image_features @ text_features.T).softmax(dim=-1)
print("Label probs:", text_probs) # prints: [[1., 0., 0.]]
See also this [Clip Colab].
To compute billions of embeddings efficiently, you can use clip-retrieval which has openclip support.
We offer a simple model interface to instantiate both pre-trained and untrained models. To see which pretrained models are available, use the following code snippet. More details about our pretrained models are available here.
>>> import open_clip
>>> open_clip.list_pretrained()
NOTE: Many existing checkpoints use the QuickGELU activation from the original OpenAI models. This activation is actually less efficient than native torch.nn.GELU in recent versions of PyTorch. The model defaults are now nn.GELU, so one should use model definitions with -quickgelu
postfix for the OpenCLIP pretrained weights. All OpenAI pretrained weights will always default to QuickGELU. One can also use the non -quickgelu
model definitions with pretrained weights using QuickGELU but there will be an accuracy drop, for fine-tune that will likely vanish for longer runs.
Future trained models will use nn.GELU.
Models can be loaded with open_clip.create_model_and_transforms
, as shown in the example below. The model name and corresponding pretrained
keys are compatible with the outputs of open_clip.list_pretrained()
.
The pretrained
argument also accepts local paths, for example /path/to/my/b32.pt
.
You can also load checkpoints from huggingface this way. To do so, download the open_clip_pytorch_model.bin
file (for example, https://huggingface.co/laion/CLIP-ViT-L-14-DataComp.XL-s13B-b90K/tree/main), and use pretrained=/path/to/open_clip_pytorch_model.bin
.
# pretrained also accepts local paths
model, _, preprocess = open_clip.create_model_and_transforms('ViT-B-32', pretrained='laion2b_s34b_b79k')
This repository is focused on training CLIP models. To fine-tune a trained zero-shot model on a downstream classification task such as ImageNet, please see our other repository: WiSE-FT. The WiSE-FT repository contains code for our paper on Robust Fine-tuning of Zero-shot Models, in which we introduce a technique for fine-tuning zero-shot models while preserving robustness under distribution shift.
To download datasets as webdataset, we recommend img2dataset.
In addition to specifying the training data via CSV files as mentioned above, our codebase also supports webdataset, which is recommended for larger scale datasets. The expected format is a series of .tar
files. Each of these .tar
files should contain two files for each training example, one for the image and one for the corresponding text. Both files should have the same name but different extensions. For instance, shard_001.tar
could contain files such as abc.jpg
and abc.txt
. You can learn more about webdataset
at https://github.com/webdataset/webdataset. We use .tar
files with 1,000 data points each, which we create using tarp.
You can download the YFCC dataset from Multimedia Commons. Similar to OpenAI, we used a subset of YFCC to reach the aforementioned accuracy numbers. The indices of images in this subset are in OpenAI's CLIP repository.
We advise you first create a virtual environment with:
python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install -U pip
You can then install openclip for training with pip install 'open_clip_torch[training]'
.
If you want to make changes to contribute code, you can clone openclip then run make install
in openclip folder (after creating a virtualenv)
Install pip PyTorch as per https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/
You may run make install-training
to install training deps
Test can be run with make install-test
then make test
python -m pytest -x -s -v tests -k "training"
to run a specific test
Running regression tests against a specific git revision or tag:
-
Generate testing data
python tests/util_test.py --model RN50 RN101 --save_model_list models.txt --git_revision 9d31b2ec4df6d8228f370ff20c8267ec6ba39383
WARNING: This will invoke git and modify your working tree, but will reset it to the current state after data has been generated!
Don't modify your working tree while test data is being generated this way. -
Run regression tests
OPEN_CLIP_TEST_REG_MODELS=models.txt python -m pytest -x -s -v -m regression_test
python -m training.main \
--save-frequency 1 \
--zeroshot-frequency 1 \
--report-to tensorboard \
--train-data="/path/to/train_data.csv" \
--val-data="/path/to/validation_data.csv" \
--csv-img-key filepath \
--csv-caption-key title \
--imagenet-val=/path/to/imagenet/root/val/ \
--warmup 10000 \
--batch-size=128 \
--lr=1e-3 \
--wd=0.1 \
--epochs=30 \
--workers=8 \
--model RN50
Note: imagenet-val
is the path to the validation set of ImageNet for zero-shot evaluation, not the training set!
You can remove this argument if you do not want to perform zero-shot evaluation on ImageNet throughout training. Note that the val
folder should contain subfolders. If it does not, please use this script.
This code has been battle tested up to 1024 A100s and offers a variety of solutions for distributed training. We include native support for SLURM clusters.
As the number of devices used to train increases, so does the space complexity of
the the logit matrix. Using a naïve all-gather scheme, space complexity will be
O(n^2)
. Instead, complexity may become effectively linear if the flags
--gather-with-grad
and --local-loss
are used. This alteration results in one-to-one
numerical results as the naïve method.
For larger datasets (eg Laion2B), we recommend setting --train-num-samples
to a lower value than the full epoch, for example --train-num-samples 135646078
to 1/16 of an epoch in conjunction with --dataset-resampled
to do sampling with replacement. This allows having frequent checkpoints to evaluate more often.
Recent research has shown that one can dropout half to three-quarters of the visual tokens, leading to up to 2-3x training speeds without loss of accuracy.
You can set this on your visual transformer config with the key patch_dropout
.
In the paper, they also finetuned without the patch dropout at the end. You can do this with the command-line argument --force-patch-dropout 0.
OpenCLIP supports using multiple data sources, by separating different data paths with ::
.
For instance, to train on CC12M and on LAION, one might use --train-data "/data/cc12m/cc12m-train-{0000..2175}.tar::/data/LAION-400M/{00000..41455}.tar"
.
Using --dataset-resampled
is recommended for these cases.
By default, on expectation the amount of times the model will see a sample from each source is proportional to the size of the source. For instance, when training on one data source with size 400M and one with size 10M, samples from the first source are 40x more likely to be seen in expectation.
We also support different weighting of the data sources, by using the --train-data-upsampling-factors
flag.
For instance, using --train-data-upsampling-factors=1::1
in the above scenario is equivalent to not using the flag, and --train-data-upsampling-factors=1::2
is equivalent to upsampling the second data source twice.
If you want to sample from data sources with the same frequency, the upsampling factors should be inversely proportional to the sizes of the data sources.
For instance, if dataset A
has 1000 samples and dataset B
has 100 samples, you can use --train-data-upsampling-factors=0.001::0.01
(or analogously, --train-data-upsampling-factors=1::10
).
We make use of torchrun
to launch distributed jobs. The following launches a
a job on a node of 4 GPUs:
cd open_clip/src
torchrun --nproc_per_node 4 -m training.main \
--train-data '/data/cc12m/cc12m-train-{0000..2175}.tar' \
--train-num-samples 10968539 \
--dataset-type webdataset \
--batch-size 320 \
--precision amp \
--workers 4 \
--imagenet-val /data/imagenet/validation/
The same script above works, so long as users include information about the number of nodes and host node.
cd open_clip/src
torchrun --nproc_per_node=4 \
--rdzv_endpoint=$HOSTE_NODE_ADDR \
-m training.main \
--train-data '/data/cc12m/cc12m-train-{0000..2175}.tar' \
--train-num-samples 10968539 \
--dataset-type webdataset \
--batch-size 320 \
--precision amp \
--workers 4 \
--imagenet-val /data/imagenet/validation/
This is likely the easiest solution to utilize. The following script was used to train our largest models:
#!/bin/bash -x
#SBATCH --nodes=32
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:4
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=4
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=6
#SBATCH --wait-all-nodes=1
#SBATCH --job-name=open_clip
#SBATCH --account=ACCOUNT_NAME
#SBATCH --partition PARTITION_NAME
eval "$(/path/to/conda/bin/conda shell.bash hook)" # init conda
conda activate open_clip
export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3
export MASTER_PORT=12802
master_addr=$(scontrol show hostnames "$SLURM_JOB_NODELIST" | head -n 1)
export MASTER_ADDR=$master_addr
cd /shared/open_clip
export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:$PWD/src"
srun --cpu_bind=v --accel-bind=gn python -u src/training/main.py \
--save-frequency 1 \
--report-to tensorboard \
--train-data="/data/LAION-400M/{00000..41455}.tar" \
--warmup 2000 \
--batch-size=256 \
--epochs=32 \
--workers=8 \
--model ViT-B-32 \
--name "ViT-B-32-Vanilla" \
--seed 0 \
--local-loss \
--gather-with-grad
python -m training.main \
--train-data="/path/to/train_data.csv" \
--val-data="/path/to/validation_data.csv" \
--resume /path/to/checkpoints/epoch_K.pt
Training CoCa models is enabled through specifying a CoCa config using the --model
parameter of the training script. Currently available configs are "coca_base", "coca_ViT-B-32", and "coca_roberta-ViT-B-32" (which uses RoBERTa as the text encoder). CoCa configs are different from CLIP configs because they have an additional "multimodal_cfg" component which specifies parameters for the multimodal text decoder. Here's an example from the coca_ViT-B-32 config:
"multimodal_cfg": {
"context_length": 76,
"vocab_size": 49408,
"width": 512,
"heads": 8,
"layers": 12,
"latent_dim": 512,
"attn_pooler_heads": 8
}
Credit to lucidrains for initial code, gpucce for adapting the code to open_clip, and iejMac for training the models.
import open_clip
import torch
from PIL import Image
model, _, transform = open_clip.create_model_and_transforms(
model_name="coca_ViT-L-14",
pretrained="mscoco_finetuned_laion2B-s13B-b90k"
)
im = Image.open("cat.jpg").convert("RGB")
im = transform(im).unsqueeze(0)
with torch.no_grad(), torch.cuda.amp.autocast():
generated = model.generate(im)
print(open_clip.decode(generated[0]).split("<end_of_text>")[0].replace("<start_of_text>", ""))
See also this [Coca Colab]
To fine-tune coca on mscoco, first create the dataset, one way is using a csvdataset and perhaps the simplest way to do it is using CLIP_benchmark which in turn uses pycocotools (that can be used also by itself).
from clip_benchmark.datasets.builder import build_dataset
import pandas as pd
import os
root_path = "path/to/data/dir" # set this to smth meaningful
ds = build_dataset("mscoco_captions", root=root_path, split="train") # this downloads the dataset if it is not there already
coco = ds.coco
imgs = coco.loadImgs(coco.getImgIds())
future_df = {"filepath":[], "title":[]}
for img in imgs:
caps = coco.imgToAnns[img["id"]]
for cap in caps:
future_df["filepath"].append(img["file_name"])
future_df["title"].append(cap["caption"])
pd.DataFrame.from_dict(future_df).to_csv(
os.path.join(root_path, "train2014.csv"), index=False, sep="\t"
)
This should create a csv dataset that one can use to fine-tune coca with open_clip
python -m training.main \
--dataset-type "csv" \
--train-data "path/to/data/dir/train2014.csv" \
--warmup 1000 \
--batch-size 128 \
--lr 1e-5 \
--wd 0.1 \
--epochs 1 \
--workers 3 \
--model "coca_ViT-L-14" \
--report-to "wandb" \
--coca-contrastive-loss-weight 0 \
--coca-caption-loss-weight 1 \
--log-every-n-steps 100
This is a general setting, open_clip has very parameters that can be set, python -m training.main --help
should show them. The only relevant change compared to pre-training are the two arguments
--coca-contrastive-loss-weight 0
--coca-caption-loss-weight 1
which make the model only train the generative side.
If you wish to use different language models as the text encoder for CLIP you can do so by using one of the Hugging Face model configs in src/open_clip/model_configs
and passing in it's tokenizer as the --model
and --hf-tokenizer-name
parameters respectively. Currently we only support RoBERTa ("test-roberta" config), however adding new models should be trivial. You can also determine how many layers, from the end, to leave unfrozen with the --lock-text-unlocked-layers
parameter. Here's an example command to train CLIP with the RoBERTa LM that has it's last 10 layers unfrozen:
python -m training.main \
--train-data="pipe:aws s3 cp s3://s-mas/cc3m/{00000..00329}.tar -" \
--train-num-samples 3000000 \
--val-data="pipe:aws s3 cp s3://s-mas/cc3m/{00330..00331}.tar -" \
--val-num-samples 10000 \
--dataset-type webdataset \
--batch-size 256 \
--warmup 2000 \
--epochs 10 \
--lr 5e-4 \
--precision amp \
--workers 6 \
--model "roberta-ViT-B-32" \
--lock-text \
--lock-text-unlocked-layers 10 \
--name "10_unfrozen" \
--report-to "tensorboard" \
When run on a machine with 8 GPUs the command should produce the following training curve for Conceptual Captions:
More detailed curves for Conceptual Captions are given at /docs/clip_conceptual_captions.md.
When training a RN50 on YFCC the same hyperparameters as above are used, with the exception of lr=5e-4
and epochs=32
.
Note that to use another model, like ViT-B/32
or RN50x4
or RN50x16
or ViT-B/16
, specify with --model RN50x4
.
For tensorboard logging, run:
tensorboard --logdir=logs/tensorboard/ --port=7777
For wandb logging, we recommend looking at the step
variable instead of Step
, since the later was not properly set in earlier versions of this codebase.
For older runs with models trained before mlfoundations#613, the Step
variable should be ignored.
For newer runs, after that PR, the two variables are the same.
We recommend https://github.com/LAION-AI/CLIP_benchmark#how-to-use for systematic evaluation on 40 datasets.
python -m training.main \
--val-data="/path/to/validation_data.csv" \
--model RN101 \
--pretrained /path/to/checkpoints/epoch_K.pt
python -m training.main \
--imagenet-val /path/to/imagenet/validation \
--model ViT-B-32-quickgelu \
--pretrained laion400m_e32
You can distill from a pre-trained by using --distill-model
and --distill-pretrained
to specify the model you'd like to distill from.
For instance, to distill from OpenAI ViT-L/14 use --distill-model ViT-L-14 --distill-pretrained openai
.
To simulate larger batches use --accum-freq k
. If per gpu batch size, --batch-size
, is m
, then the effective batch size will be k * m * num_gpus
.
When increasing --accum-freq
from its default of 1, samples/s will remain approximately constant (batch size will double, as will time-per-batch). It is recommended to use other features to reduce batch size such as --grad-checkpointing --local-loss --gather-with-grad
before increasing --accum-freq
. --accum-freq
can be used in addition to these features.
Instead of 1 forward pass per example, there are now 2 forward passes per-example. However, the first is done with torch.no_grad
.
There is some additional GPU memory required --- the features and data from all m
batches are stored in memory.
There are also m
loss computations instead of the usual 1.
For more information see Cui et al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09331) or Pham et al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.10050).
We have beta support for int8 training and inference.
You can enable int8 training with --use-bnb-linear SwitchBackLinearGlobal
or --use-bnb-linear SwitchBackLinearGlobalMemEfficient
.
Please see the bitsandbytes library for definitions for these layers.
For CLIP VIT-Huge this should currently correspond to a 10% training speedup with no accuracy loss.
More speedups comin when the attention layer is refactored so that linear layers man be replaced there, too.
See the tutorial https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip/blob/main/tutorials/int8_tutorial.ipynb or paper.
It is always possible to resume directly from a remote file, e.g., a file in an s3 bucket. Just set --resume s3://<path-to-checkpoint>
.
This will work with any filesystem supported by fsspec
.
It is also possible to train open_clip
models while continuously backing up to s3. This can help to avoid slow local file systems.
Say that your node has a local ssd /scratch
, an s3 bucket s3://<path-to-bucket>
.
In that case, set --logs /scratch
and --remote-sync s3://<path-to-bucket>
. Then, a background process will sync /scratch/<run-name>
to s3://<path-to-bucket>/<run-name>
. After syncing, the background process will sleep for --remote-sync-frequency
seconds, which defaults to 5 minutes.
There is also experimental support for syncing to other remote file systems, not just s3. To do so, specify --remote-sync-protocol fsspec
. However, this is currently very slow and not recommended.
Also, to optionally avoid saving too many checkpoints locally when using these features, you can use --delete-previous-checkpoint
which deletes the previous checkpoint after saving a new one.
Note: if you are using this feature with --resume latest
, there are a few warnings. First, use with --save-most-recent
is not supported. Second, only s3
is supported. Finally, since the sync happens in the background, it is possible that the most recent checkpoint may not be finished syncing to the remote.
The module open_clip.push_to_hf_hub
includes helpers for pushing models /w weights and config to the HF Hub.
The tool can be run from command line, ex:
python -m open_clip.push_to_hf_hub --model convnext_large_d_320 --pretrained /train/checkpoints/epoch_12.pt --repo-id laion/CLIP-convnext_large_d_320.laion2B-s29B-b131K-ft
We gratefully acknowledge the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing e.V. (www.gauss-centre.eu) for funding this part of work by providing computing time through the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) on the GCS Supercomputer JUWELS Booster at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC).
Current development of this repository is led by Ross Wightman, Romain Beaumont, Cade Gordon, and Vaishaal Shankar.
The original version of this repository is from a group of researchers at UW, Google, Stanford, Amazon, Columbia, and Berkeley.
Gabriel Ilharco*, Mitchell Wortsman*, Nicholas Carlini, Rohan Taori, Achal Dave, Vaishaal Shankar, John Miller, Hongseok Namkoong, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Ali Farhadi, Ludwig Schmidt
Special thanks to Jong Wook Kim and Alec Radford for help with reproducing CLIP!
If you found this repository useful, please consider citing:
@software{ilharco_gabriel_2021_5143773,
author = {Ilharco, Gabriel and
Wortsman, Mitchell and
Wightman, Ross and
Gordon, Cade and
Carlini, Nicholas and
Taori, Rohan and
Dave, Achal and
Shankar, Vaishaal and
Namkoong, Hongseok and
Miller, John and
Hajishirzi, Hannaneh and
Farhadi, Ali and
Schmidt, Ludwig},
title = {OpenCLIP},
month = jul,
year = 2021,
note = {If you use this software, please cite it as below.},
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {0.1},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.5143773},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5143773}
}
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author={Cherti, Mehdi and Beaumont, Romain and Wightman, Ross and Wortsman, Mitchell and Ilharco, Gabriel and Gordon, Cade and Schuhmann, Christoph and Schmidt, Ludwig and Jitsev, Jenia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
pages={2818--2829},
year={2023}
}
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title={Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision},
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