EVA-CLIP-18B: Scaling CLIP to 18 Billion Parameters
Authors: name: Quan Sun, name: Jinsheng Wang, name: Qiying Yu, name: Yufeng Cui, name: Fan Zhang, name: Xiaosong Zhang, name: Xinlong Wang

Scaling up contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) is critical for
empowering both vision and multimodal models. We present EVA-CLIP-18B, the
largest and most powerful open-source CLIP model to date, with 18-billion
parameters. With only 6-billion training samples seen, EVA-CLIP-18B achieves an
exceptional 80.7% zero-shot top-1 accuracy averaged across 27 widely recognized
image classification benchmarks, outperforming its forerunner EVA-CLIP
(5-billion parameters) and other open-source CLIP models by a large margin.
Remarkably, we observe a consistent performance improvement with the model size
scaling of EVA-CLIP, despite maintaining a constant training dataset of
2-billion image-text pairs from LAION-2B and COYO-700M. This dataset is openly
available and much smaller than the in-house datasets (e.g., DFN-5B, WebLI-10B)
employed in other state-of-the-art CLIP models. EVA-CLIP-18B demonstrates the
potential of EVA-style weak-to-strong visual model scaling. With our model
weights made publicly available, we hope to facilitate future research in
vision and multimodal foundation models.