| Challenge: | Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated remarkable success in aligning vision and language. |
| Approach: | They propose a synonym bank mechanism that generates synonym embeddings as alignment targets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on 51 datasets. |
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