Practical overview
When it fits
Use CrossCLR when an existing Python workflow can supply video and text feature tensors and you need the documented loss component for representation-learning experiments.
Who it is for
- Researchers developing multimodal video representations.
- Machine-learning engineers experimenting with video-text retrieval and contrastive training.
Documented uses
- Compute a contrastive training loss from video and text features.
- Incorporate the CrossCLR loss into a video-text representation training pipeline.
- Prototype or compare contrastive-learning setups for video-text retrieval.
Requirements & limits
The public repository specifies an Apache-2.0 license.
- The documented loss interface expects already-computed video and text features shaped [bsz, f_dim].
- The README demonstrates loss calculation, not a complete training or retrieval pipeline.
- The implementation is Python-based and licensed under Apache-2.0.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Calculate CrossCLR loss from video and text features
Use the documented loss interface to obtain a contrastive training loss from compatible video and text feature tensors.
Before you start
- Python project with the CrossCLR repository available.
- Video and text feature tensors shaped [bsz, f_dim].
- Temperature and negative-sample weight values for configuring the loss.
Steps
Import CrossCLR_onlyIntraModality from trainer.loss.
Initialize it with temperature and negative_weight arguments.
Pass video_features and text_features to the criterion to obtain the loss.
Expected outcome
A loss value computed from the supplied video and text features.
Guide limitations
- The README does not specify feature extraction, dataset preparation, optimizer setup, or a complete training loop.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 18 October 2026
- Original website title
- amazon-science/crossmodal-contrastive-learning · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

