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rom1504 / clip-retrieval

clip-retrieval

Easily compute clip embeddings and build a clip retrieval system with them

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9Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
2.8KGitHub stars
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What it is

Easily compute clip embeddings and build a clip retrieval system with them

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Below is an OSS alternative, originating from same engineering as stable diffusion. There is other awesome work in rom1504's Github I recommend exploring as well.…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-09-01 14:58:23 UTC to 2023-02-06 00:46:10 UTC.

012342021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 20212021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 20222022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 commentsFeb 2023

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Sep 20212021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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Nov 20212021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20212021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20222022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20222022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Apr 20222022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20222022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20222022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20222022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20222022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20222022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20222022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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What Hacker News says

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Semantic and Similarity Image Search Engine

Based on OpenAI's CLIP and the clip-retrieval library (https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval), I've built an end-to-end demo for a semantic and similarity image search engine. It's incredibly powerful for finding similar images amongst large image datasets, or just submitting text/natural language queries and finding the most relevant images in your dataset. Really useful tool for introspection into large datasets before annotation or ML work begins. This could potentially be used to filter or downsize your datasets by several orders of magnitude and make annotation and ML work easier and less costly. Checkout the demo here: http://ec2-52-39-251-116.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/ And you can checkout our website or email me for updates and email list, etc.: https://machineperception.co ameer@machineperception.co
1 points · Open discussion
Would the embeds from openai's CLIP be suitably "dense" for this to work? The usage requires calculating the cosine similarity between the embeds and there are many instances where a lookup table approach is already being applied e.g. github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval.
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