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---
license: mit
library_name: open_clip
tags:
- image-text-retrieval
- retrieval
- openclip
- vit
- icar
---
# ICAR Weights (OpenCLIP ViT-L-14, LAION-2B)
This repository provides ICAR fine-tuned OpenCLIP ViT-L-14 (LAION-2B) weights,
including early-exit variants, used in the paper "Image Complexity-Aware Adaptive
Retrieval for Efficient Vision-Language Models".
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15372
Code: https://github.com/MikelWL/ICAR
These weights are intended to be used with the ICAR codebase. The standard
retrieval setting reported in the paper evaluates COCO/Flickr test queries
against a gallery augmented with 100k LAION-COCO distractors.
## Contents
All weights are stored under the `checkpoints/` directory to match the ICAR
codebase layout.
### Baselines (full path)
- `checkpoints/baseline_coco/latest_checkpoint.pt`
- `checkpoints/baseline_flickr/latest_checkpoint.pt`
### Early-exit variants (ICAR)
- `checkpoints/icar_coco/layer_8/latest_checkpoint.pt`
- `checkpoints/icar_coco/layer_12/latest_checkpoint.pt`
- `checkpoints/icar_coco/layer_16/latest_checkpoint.pt`
- `checkpoints/icar_coco/layer_20/latest_checkpoint.pt`
- `checkpoints/icar_flickr/layer_8/latest_checkpoint.pt`
- `checkpoints/icar_flickr/layer_12/latest_checkpoint.pt`
- `checkpoints/icar_flickr/layer_16/latest_checkpoint.pt`
- `checkpoints/icar_flickr/layer_20/latest_checkpoint.pt`
## Usage
Use the ICAR scripts as the primary entrypoints. See the main repo README for
reference scripts and required data paths.
Example (mixed evaluation):
```bash
python scripts/evaluate_mixed_preprocessed.py \
--config icar/configs/coco.yaml \
--checkpoint checkpoints/icar_coco/layer_12/latest_checkpoint.pt \
--base-dataset mscoco \
--base-data-root /path/to/coco-images \
--laion-data-root /path/to/laion_coco_100k \
--complexity-scores /path/to/laion_coco_100k_metadata/complexity_scores.json \
--early-exit-layer 12 \
--use-icc-routing \
--icc-checkpoint /path/to/icc_weights.pt \
--eval-category
```
## ICC Weights
ICC (Image Complexity Classifier) weights are hosted separately due to
non-commercial licensing restrictions on the ImageNet-pretrained ConvNeXt-V2
checkpoint. Please download ICC weights from the dedicated ICC repository.
## License
The ICAR weights in this repository follow the OpenCLIP license (MIT).
See the OpenCLIP repository for details and attribution requirements.