CLIP Score

Calculates CLIP Score which is a text-to-image similarity metric.

CLIP Score is a reference free metric that can be used to evaluate the correlation between a generated caption for an image and the actual content of the image. It has been found to be highly correlated with human judgement. The metric is defined as:

which corresponds to the cosine similarity between visual CLIP embedding $E_i$ for an image $i$ and textual CLIP embedding $E_C$ for an caption $C$. The score is bound between 0 and 100 and the closer to 100 the better.

As input to forward and update the metric accepts the following input

• images (Tensor or list of tensors): tensor with images feed to the feature extractor with. If

  a single tensor it should have shape (N, C, H, W). If a list of tensors, each tensor should have shape (C, H, W). C is the number of channels, H and W are the height and width of the image.

• text (str or list of str): text to compare with the images, one for each image.

As output of forward and compute the metric returns the following output

• clip_score (Tensor): float scalar tensor with mean CLIP score over samples

Parameters:

• model_name_or_path (Literal['openai/clip-vit-base-patch16', 'openai/clip-vit-base-patch32', 'openai/clip-vit-large-patch14-336', 'openai/clip-vit-large-patch14']) –

  string indicating the version of the CLIP model to use. Available models are:

  • ”openai/clip-vit-base-patch16”

  • ”openai/clip-vit-base-patch32”

  • ”openai/clip-vit-large-patch14-336”

  • ”openai/clip-vit-large-patch14”

• kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments, see Advanced metric settings for more info.

Raises:

ModuleNotFoundError – If transformers package is not installed or version is lower than 4.10.0

Example

>>> import torch
>>> from torchmetrics.multimodal.clip_score import CLIPScore
>>> metric = CLIPScore(model_name_or_path="openai/clip-vit-base-patch16")
>>> score = metric(torch.randint(255, (3, 224, 224), generator=torch.manual_seed(42)), "a photo of a cat")
>>> score.detach()
tensor(24.4255)

compute()[source]

Compute accumulated clip score.

Return type:

Tensor

plot(val=None, ax=None)[source]

Plot a single or multiple values from the metric.

Parameters:

• val (Union[Tensor, Sequence[Tensor], None]) – Either a single result from calling metric.forward or metric.compute or a list of these results. If no value is provided, will automatically call metric.compute and plot that result.

• ax (Optional[Axes]) – An matplotlib axis object. If provided will add plot to that axis

Return type:

Tuple[Figure, Union[Axes, ndarray]]

Returns:

Figure and Axes object

Raises:

ModuleNotFoundError – If matplotlib is not installed

>>>

>>> # Example plotting a single value
>>> import torch
>>> from torchmetrics.multimodal.clip_score import CLIPScore
>>> metric = CLIPScore(model_name_or_path="openai/clip-vit-base-patch16")
>>> metric.update(torch.randint(255, (3, 224, 224)), "a photo of a cat")
>>> fig_, ax_ = metric.plot()

>>>

>>> # Example plotting multiple values
>>> import torch
>>> from torchmetrics.multimodal.clip_score import CLIPScore
>>> metric = CLIPScore(model_name_or_path="openai/clip-vit-base-patch16")
>>> values = [ ]
>>> for _ in range(10):
...     values.append(metric(torch.randint(255, (3, 224, 224)), "a photo of a cat"))
>>> fig_, ax_ = metric.plot(values)

update(images, text)[source]

Update CLIP score on a batch of images and text.

Parameters:

• images (Union[Tensor, List[Tensor]]) – Either a single [N, C, H, W] tensor or a list of [C, H, W] tensors

• text (Union[str, List[str]]) – Either a single caption or a list of captions

Raises:

• ValueError – If not all images have format [C, H, W]

• ValueError – If the number of images and captions do not match

Return type:

None