any other visual concept. Learning directly from raw text about images is a promising alternative which leverages a
much broader source of supervision. We demonstrate that the simple pre-training task of predicting which caption goes
with which image is an efficient and scalable way to learn SOTA image representations from scratch on a dataset of 400
million (image, text) pairs collected from the internet. After pre-training, natural language is used to reference
learned visual concepts (or describe new ones) enabling zero-shot transfer of the model to downstream tasks. We study
the performance of this approach by benchmarking on over 30 different existing computer vision datasets, spanning tasks
such as OCR, action recognition in videos, geo-localization, and many types of fine-grained object classification. The
