better name...

[dmarx]

"mmc" is fine, "multi-modal comparators" is awful. Maybe "zero-shot classifiers?" zsc is nice and memorable

[rom1504]

keywords that are think are interesting here:

• multimodal
• encoder
• similarity
• comparator
• dot product
• clip

https://namelix.com/app/?keywords=multimodal+encoder+similarity+comparator+dot+product+clip

suggested there:

• multimix
• clipmix
• encodely
• metaencoder
• clippit
• clipabox
• mulclip
• cliptune

https://namelix.com/app/?keywords=multimodal+encoder+similarity+comparator+clip+perceptor

• triplevector
• symoder
• clipcomp
• simsight
• multioptics
• tricomp

my ideas:

• all-clip
• dual-encoder
• comparers

I kind of think dual-encoder might be good
Maybe having clip in the name would be nice though, so mulclip maybe ?

Ok I'll leave that here, maybe that gives ideas

agreed that Multi-Modal-Comparators is a bit long

[rom1504]

problem of mmc is it's not googleable, you can't find it in google
Multi-Modal-Comparators is googleable

maybe multimodal-comparators ?

[dmarx]

multimodal-comparators

yeah, it's an improvement

problem of mmc is it's not googleable

I guess... you'd think the same would be true for "timm" but they don't seem to have a problem there. maybe "python mmc" will pull this up if it ends up becoming more popular

one thing I like about "mmc" is the simplicity of pip install mmc. I worry that pip install multimodal-comparators might be a spelling challenge for many users, in particular those with limited english proficiency. gotta pick our battles I guess. maybe writing out two words isn't an unreasonable ask.

Maybe having clip in the name would be nice though, so mulclip maybe ?

the reason I didn't go this route to begin with is that I didn't want to constrain this library to just CLIP models. Maybe that was over-ambitious or a pre-mature optimization?

[dmarx]

maybe we could do some sort of riff on "multimodality" in general? Maybe something to do with synaesthesia? (speaking of making it a spelling challenge..)

• synesthete
• synthesize
• crossmodal
• xmodal
• luria - reference to a book about a famous synesthete
• sachs - reference to physician who made first known medical report of synesthesia
• cytowic - reference to researcher who helped demonstrate that synesthesia is a physiological/neurological phenomenon rather than a purely psychological phenomenon.
• hubb - reference to ed hubbard, another synesthesia researcher, and evocative of "model hub"

...not a huge fan of any of these lol

[rom1504]

crossmodal seems pretty good. nothing seems to be called that way

[rom1504]

but yeah maybe just mmc
"github mmc" is googleable

[Philipuss1]

One Perceptor To RulE Them All - OPTETA

Or something like that