15. LightOn AI Meetup: CLIP for the Italian Language

LightOn is redefining computing for some of today’s largest software/hardware challenges in AI and HPC, such as extreme-scale foundation models. Our vision is to lower the barrier to entry of Transformative AI for small and large businesses, in a sustainable way. We gather experts, engineers, researchers, who are shaping the world of tomorrow. We are back for our 15th edition!

Our meetups will happen online in order to keep our attendees safe until further notice.

This event takes place at 16:30, Paris time (GMT +02:00)

A Zoom link will be provided prior to the meetup.

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Agenda

16:30 – Introduction by LightOn

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16:35 – Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training for the Italian Language
by Federico Bianchi, Postdoctoral Researcher at Università Bocconi

Abstract: CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) is a very recent multi-modal model that jointly learns representations of images and texts. The model is trained on a massive amount of English data and shows impressive performance on zero-shot classification tasks. Training the same model on a different language is not trivial, since data in other languages might be not enough and the model needs high-quality translations of the texts to guarantee a good performance. We present the first CLIP model for the Italian Language (CLIP-Italian), trained on more than 1.4 million image-text pairs. Results show that CLIP-Italian outperforms the multilingual CLIP model on the tasks of image retrieval and zero-shot classification.