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Mehdi Cherti

6 accepted papers

2026

Concept-Aware Batch Sampling Improves Language-Image Pretraining

CVPR 2026

What data should a vision-language model be trained on? To answer this question, many data curation efforts center on the quality of a dataset. However, most of these existing methods are (i) offline, i.e. they produce a static dataset from a set of predetermined filtering criteria, and (ii) concept

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2025

Scaling Laws for Robust Comparison of Open Foundation Language-Vision Models and Datasets

NeurIPS 2025poster

In studies of transferable learning, scaling laws are obtained for various important foundation models to predict their properties and performance at larger scales. Taking language-vision learning as example, we show here how scaling law derivation can also be used for model and dataset comparison,…

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2024

A Practitioner's Guide to Real-World Continual Multimodal Pretraining

NeurIPS 2024poster

Multimodal foundation models serve numerous applications at the intersection of vision and language. Still, despite being pretrained on extensive data, they become outdated over time. To keep models updated, research into continual pretraining mainly explores scenarios with either (1) infrequent, in…

2023

DataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets

NeurIPS 2023oral

Multimodal datasets are a critical component in recent breakthroughs such as CLIP, Stable Diffusion and GPT-4, yet their design does not receive the same research attention as model architectures or training algorithms. To address this shortcoming in the machine learning ecosystem, we introduce Data…

2023

Reproducible Scaling Laws for Contrastive Language-Image Learning

CVPR 2023poster

Scaling up neural networks has led to remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. Moreover, performance often follows reliable scaling laws as a function of training set size, model size, and compute, which offers valuable guidance as large-scale experiments are becoming increasingly expens…

2022

LAION-5B: An open large-scale dataset for training next generation image-text models

NeurIPS 2022accept

Groundbreaking language-vision architectures like CLIP and DALL-E proved the utility of training on large amounts of noisy image-text data, without relying on expensive accurate labels used in standard vision unimodal supervised learning. The resulting models showed capabilities of strong text-guide…