readme: ---
  language: it
  license: 
  datasets:
  - wit
  - ctl/conceptualCaptions
  - mscoco-it
  tags:
  - italian
  - bert
  - vit
  - vision
  ---
  
  # CLIP-Italian
  CLIP Italian is a CLIP-like Model for Italian. The CLIP model (Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training) was developed by researchers at OpenAI and is able to efficiently learn visual concepts from natural language supervision. 
  
  We fine-tuned a competitive Italian CLIP model with only ~1.4 million Italian image-text pairs. This model is part of the [Flax/Jax Community Week](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/open-to-the-community-community-week-using-jax-flax-for-nlp-cv/7104), organized by [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/) and TPU usage sponsored by Google.
  
  ## Training Data
  We considered three main sources of data: 
  - [WIT](https://github.com/google-research-datasets/wit)
  - [MSCOCO-IT](https://github.com/crux82/mscoco-it)
  - [Conceptual Captions](https://ai.google.com/research/ConceptualCaptions/)
  
  ## Training Procedure
  Preprocessing, hardware used, hyperparameters...
  
  ## Evaluation Performance
  
  
  ## Limitations
  
  
  ## Usage
  
  
  ## Team members
  - Federico Bianchi ([vinid](https://huggingface.co/vinid))
  - Raphael Pisoni ([4rtemi5](https://huggingface.co/4rtemi5))
  - Giuseppe Attanasio ([g8a9](https://huggingface.co/g8a9))
  - Silvia Terragni ([silviatti](https://huggingface.co/silviatti))
  - Dario Balestri ([D3Reo](https://huggingface.co/D3Reo))
  - Gabriele Sarti ([gsarti](https://huggingface.co/gsarti))
  - Sri Lakshmi ([srisweet](https://huggingface.co/srisweet))
  
  ## Useful links
  - [CLIP Blog post](https://openai.com/blog/clip/)
  - [CLIP paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020)
  - [Community Week README](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/research_projects/jax-projects/README.md)
  - [Community Week channel](https://discord.com/channels/858019234139602994/859711887520038933)
  - [Hybrid CLIP example scripts](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/research_projects/jax-projects/hybrid_clip)
  - [Model Repository](https://huggingface.co/clip-italian/clip-italian-final/)