Practical overview
When it fits
Use it when a fashion-focused image-text model or a reproducible benchmark starting point is relevant to a retrieval, matching or classification task.
Who it is for
- Developers building fashion product image-text retrieval or classification workflows.
- Researchers comparing fashion embedding models across public datasets.
- Teams assessing category-to-product and sub-category-to-product matching.
Documented uses
- Retrieve fashion product images using text queries.
- Match products to categories or subcategories.
- Load model weights and create image and text features for comparisons.
- Evaluate model performance across the repository's public fashion benchmark datasets.
Requirements & limits
The repository is public and identifies its license as Apache-2.0.
- The README provides two model choices: Marqo-FashionCLIP and Marqo-FashionSigLIP.
- Evaluation scripts cover seven named public datasets, while the task and metadata available vary by dataset.
- The README documents loading through Transformers or OpenCLIP, local benchmark evaluation, and a separate Marqo deployment path.
- Reported benchmark averages cover different dataset counts by task, so they should be interpreted in that context.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Run a model benchmark on a supported dataset
Evaluate Marqo-FashionCLIP or Marqo-FashionSigLIP with one of the repository's named dataset configurations.
Before you start
- Python environment with PyTorch installed
- Repository requirements installed with
pip install -r requirements.txt - A dataset configuration among deepfashion_inshop, deepfashion_multimodal, fashion200k, KAGL, atlas, polyvore or iMaterialist
Steps
Install PyTorch.
Install the repository dependencies with the command below.
pip install -r requirements.txtRun the command below, replacing
${DATASET}with a supported dataset name; useMarqo/marqo-fashionSigLIPandMarqo-FashionSigLIPfor the other model.python eval.py --dataset-config ./configs/${DATASET}.json --model-name Marqo/marqo-fashionCLIP --run-name Marqo-FashionCLIPRun the command below to summarize local results.
python summarize_results.py
Expected outcome
A local benchmark run and a script for summarizing model results.
Guide limitations
- Dataset metadata and tasks differ by dataset; consult the repository's task configurations.
- The README documents evaluation and result summarization, not a deployment or serving workflow.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 16 October 2026
- Original website title
- marqo-ai/marqo-FashionCLIP · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

