
SigLIP
Overview
The SigLIP model was proposed in Sigmoid Loss for Language Image Pre-Training by Xiaohua Zhai, Basil Mustafa, Alexander Kolesnikov, Lucas Beyer. SigLIP proposes to replace the loss function used in CLIP by a simple pairwise sigmoid loss. This results in better performance in terms of zero-shot classification accuracy on ImageNet.
The abstract from the paper is the following:
We propose a simple pairwise Sigmoid loss for Language-Image Pre-training (SigLIP). Unlike standard contrastive learning with softmax normalization, the sigmoid loss operates solely on image-text pairs and does not require a global view of the pairwise similarities for normalization. The sigmoid loss simultaneously allows further scaling up the batch size, while also performing better at smaller batch sizes. Combined with Locked-image Tuning, with only four TPUv4 chips, we train a SigLiT model that achieves 84.5% ImageNet zero-shot accuracy in two days. The disentanglement of the batch size from the loss further allows us to study the impact of examples vs pairs and negative to positive ratio. Finally, we push the batch size to the extreme, up to one million, and find that the benefits of growing batch size quickly diminish, with a more reasonable batch size of 32k being sufficient.
Usage tips

Usage of SigLIP is similar to CLIP. The main difference is the training loss, which does not require a global view of all the pairwise similarities of images and texts within a batch. One needs to apply the sigmoid activation function to the logits, rather than the softmax.
Training is not yet supported. If you want to fine-tune SigLIP or train from scratch, refer to the loss function from OpenCLIP, which leverages various torch.distributed utilities.
When using the standalone [SiglipTokenizer] or [SiglipProcessor], make sure to pass padding="max_length" as that's how the model was trained.

 SigLIP evaluation results compared to CLIP. Taken from the original paper.
This model was contributed by nielsr.
The original code can be found here.
Usage example
There are 2 main ways to use SigLIP: either using the pipeline API, which abstracts away all the complexity for you, or by using the SiglipModel class yourself.
Pipeline API
The pipeline allows to use the model in a few lines of code:
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from transformers import pipeline
from PIL import Image
import requests
load pipe
image_classifier = pipeline(task="zero-shot-image-classification", model="google/siglip-base-patch16-224")
load image
url = 'http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg'
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
inference
outputs = image_classifier(image, candidate_labels=["2 cats", "a plane", "a remote"])
outputs = [{"score": round(output["score"], 4), "label": output["label"] } for output in outputs]
print(outputs)
[{'score': 0.1979, 'label': '2 cats'}, {'score': 0.0, 'label': 'a remote'}, {'score': 0.0, 'label': 'a plane'}]

Using the model yourself
If you want to do the pre- and postprocessing yourself, here's how to do that:
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from PIL import Image
import requests
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModel
import torch
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("google/siglip-base-patch16-224")
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("google/siglip-base-patch16-224")
url = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
texts = ["a photo of 2 cats", "a photo of 2 dogs"]
important: we pass padding=max_length since the model was trained with this
inputs = processor(text=texts, images=image, padding="max_length", return_tensors="pt")
with torch.no_grad():
     outputs = model(**inputs)
logits_per_image = outputs.logits_per_image
probs = torch.sigmoid(logits_per_image) # these are the probabilities
print(f"{probs[0][0]:.1%} that image 0 is '{texts[0]}'")
31.9% that image 0 is 'a photo of 2 cats'

Resources
A list of official Hugging Face and community (indicated by 🌎) resources to help you get started with SigLIP.

Zero-shot image classification task guide
Demo notebooks for SigLIP can be found here. 🌎

If you're interested in submitting a resource to be included here, please feel free to open a Pull Request and we'll review it! The resource should ideally demonstrate something new instead of duplicating an existing resource.
SiglipConfig
[[autodoc]] SiglipConfig
    - from_text_vision_configs
SiglipTextConfig
[[autodoc]] SiglipTextConfig
SiglipVisionConfig
[[autodoc]] SiglipVisionConfig
SiglipTokenizer
[[autodoc]] SiglipTokenizer
    - build_inputs_with_special_tokens
    - get_special_tokens_mask
    - create_token_type_ids_from_sequences
    - save_vocabulary
SiglipImageProcessor
[[autodoc]] SiglipImageProcessor
    - preprocess
SiglipProcessor
[[autodoc]] SiglipProcessor
SiglipModel
[[autodoc]] SiglipModel
    - forward
    - get_text_features
    - get_image_features
SiglipTextModel
[[autodoc]] SiglipTextModel
    - forward
SiglipVisionModel
[[autodoc]] SiglipVisionModel
    - forward
SiglipForImageClassification
[[autodoc]] SiglipForImageClassification
    - forward