README.md

---
license: mit
task_categories:
  - zero-shot-image-classification
  - feature-extraction
language:
  - en
tags:
  - clip
  - siglip
  - embeddings
  - zero-shot
  - interpretability
  - concept-bottleneck
  - vision-language
  - cvpr2026
size_categories:
  - 1M<n<10M
pretty_name: EZPC Pre-computed Embeddings
---

# EZPC - Pre-computed CLIP / SigLIP Embeddings

This dataset hosts the pre-computed image embeddings, cached text (classname / concept) embeddings, and class splits used in **Explaining CLIP Zero-shot Predictions Through Concepts** (CVPR 2026).

Running EZPC from scratch requires extracting CLIP / SigLIP features for every image in five benchmark datasets (CIFAR-100, CUB-200-2011, Places365, ImageNet, ImageNet-100) with multiple backbones. To skip the expensive feature-extraction step, we release the exact tensors we used in the paper - drop them into the EZPC repo's `data/` folder and you can train, evaluate, and reproduce quantitative results without touching the raw images.

- 📄 **Paper:** [arXiv:2603.28211](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28211)
- 💻 **Code:** [github.com/oonat/ezpc](https://github.com/oonat/ezpc)
- 🌐 **Project page:** [oonat.github.io/ezpc](https://oonat.github.io/ezpc)
- 🤗 **Checkpoints:** [oonat/ezpc-checkpoints](https://huggingface.co/oonat/ezpc-checkpoints)

## What's Included

For each of the five datasets and each supported backbone, this repository provides:

- **Full train / test embeddings + targets:** CLIP/SigLIP image features for every training and test image across **all** classes, along with their class indices. Useful as a general-purpose feature dump and as the input to `data/split_dataset.py` if you want to regenerate the splits under a different seed or ratio.
- **Seen-split train / test embeddings:** embeddings restricted to the 80% "seen" classes. The train split is used to fit the EZPC projection matrix **A**; the test split measures GZSL seen-class accuracy.
- **Unseen-split train / test embeddings:** embeddings restricted to the 20% "unseen" classes held out from training. Used for GZSL unseen-class evaluation (and for the `--target_dataset` side of cross-dataset transfer).
- **Split-aligned target files:** `seen_train_ids.pt`, `seen_test_ids.pt`, `unseen_train_ids.pt`, `unseen_test_ids.pt`, each giving the class index for every row of the corresponding split.
- **Class split file:** the exact seen / unseen class partition (seed 42, 80/20) used in the paper.
- **Cached text embeddings:** L2-normalized `"a photo of {x}"` text embeddings for class names (`{backbone}_classname_embs.pt`, shape `(C, d)`) and concepts (`{backbone}_concept_matrix.pt`, shape `(m, d)`). `test.py` loads these automatically so evaluation reproduces the reported numbers **exactly and independent of GPU / CUDA version** — without re-running the CLIP/SigLIP text encoder.

Supported backbones: **CLIP RN50**, **CLIP ViT-B/32**, **CLIP ViT-L/14**, **SigLIP ViT-SO400M/14**.

## Repository Layout

Each dataset follows the same two-level structure: top-level `embeddings/` holds the **full** image feature dump (all classes) plus the **cached text embeddings**, and `embeddings/splits/` holds the **seen/unseen partition** used throughout the paper.

```
data/
├── CIFAR-100/
│   └── embeddings/
│       ├── RN50_train_embeddings.pt                       # (N_train, d) - all classes
│       ├── RN50_test_embeddings.pt                        # (N_test,  d) - all classes
│       ├── ViT-B-32_train_embeddings.pt
│       ├── ViT-B-32_test_embeddings.pt
│       ├── ViT-L-14_train_embeddings.pt
│       ├── ViT-L-14_test_embeddings.pt
│       ├── siglip-so400m-patch14-384_train_embeddings.pt
│       ├── siglip-so400m-patch14-384_test_embeddings.pt
│       ├── RN50_classname_embs.pt                         # (C, d) - class-name text embeddings
│       ├── RN50_concept_matrix.pt                         # (m, d) - concept text embeddings
│       ├── ViT-B-32_classname_embs.pt
│       ├── ViT-B-32_concept_matrix.pt
│       ├── ViT-L-14_classname_embs.pt
│       ├── ViT-L-14_concept_matrix.pt
│       ├── siglip-so400m-patch14-384_classname_embs.pt
│       ├── siglip-so400m-patch14-384_concept_matrix.pt
│       ├── train_ids.pt                                   # (N_train,)  - class indices
│       ├── test_ids.pt                                    # (N_test,)   - class indices
│       └── splits/
│           ├── class_split.pt                             # {seen_classes, unseen_classes}
│           ├── RN50_seen_train_embs.pt
│           ├── RN50_seen_test_embs.pt
│           ├── RN50_unseen_train_embs.pt
│           ├── RN50_unseen_test_embs.pt
│           ├── ViT-B-32_seen_train_embs.pt
│           ├── ViT-B-32_seen_test_embs.pt
│           ├── ViT-B-32_unseen_train_embs.pt
│           ├── ViT-B-32_unseen_test_embs.pt
│           ├── ViT-L-14_seen_train_embs.pt
│           ├── ViT-L-14_seen_test_embs.pt
│           ├── ViT-L-14_unseen_train_embs.pt
│           ├── ViT-L-14_unseen_test_embs.pt
│           ├── siglip-so400m-patch14-384_seen_train_embs.pt
│           ├── siglip-so400m-patch14-384_seen_test_embs.pt
│           ├── siglip-so400m-patch14-384_unseen_train_embs.pt
│           ├── siglip-so400m-patch14-384_unseen_test_embs.pt
│           ├── seen_train_ids.pt
│           ├── seen_test_ids.pt
│           ├── unseen_train_ids.pt
│           └── unseen_test_ids.pt
├── CUB-200-2011/
│   └── embeddings/ ...
├── ImageNet/
│   └── embeddings/ ...
├── ImageNet-100/
│   └── embeddings/ ...
└── Places365/
    └── embeddings/ ...
```

## Quickstart

### 1. Download the data

```bash
pip install huggingface-hub

# Grab everything
hf download oonat/ezpc-embeddings \
    --repo-type dataset \
    --local-dir data

# Or just one dataset
hf download oonat/ezpc-embeddings \
    --repo-type dataset \
    --local-dir data \
    --include "CIFAR-100/*"

# Or only what EZPC needs to evaluate: the GZSL splits + cached text embeddings
hf download oonat/ezpc-embeddings \
    --repo-type dataset \
    --local-dir data \
    --include "*/embeddings/splits/*" "*/embeddings/*_classname_embs.pt" "*/embeddings/*_concept_matrix.pt"
```

### 2. Plug it into EZPC

Clone the [EZPC GitHub repo](https://github.com/oonat/ezpc) and point `--dataset_root` at the folder you downloaded:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/oonat/ezpc.git
cd ezpc
conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate ezpc
pip install -e .

# data/ lives next to train.py now - run training:
python train.py \
    --dataset CIFAR-100 \
    --dataset_root ./data \
    --backbone RN50 \
    --lambda_weight 1.0 \
    --lr 0.01 \
    --num_epochs 10000
```

## Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

```bibtex
@InProceedings{Ozdemir_2026_CVPR,
    author    = {Ozdemir, Onat and Christensen, Anders and Alaniz, Stephan and Akata, Zeynep and Akbas, Emre},
    title     = {Explaining CLIP Zero-shot Predictions Through Concepts},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2026},
    pages     = {31336-31345}
}
```

Please also cite the **original datasets** whose images were used to produce these embeddings (CIFAR-100, CUB-200-2011, Places365, ImageNet, ImageNet-100) and the backbone models (CLIP, SigLIP).

## Acknowledgements

- Concept vocabularies and class label mappings are taken from [Label-free Concept Bottleneck Models](https://github.com/Trustworthy-ML-Lab/Label-free-CBM). We thank the authors for open-sourcing them.
- Backbones from [OpenAI CLIP](https://github.com/openai/CLIP), [OpenCLIP](https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip), and [Google SigLIP](https://huggingface.co/google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384).

## License

Released under the MIT License.

Note that these embeddings are derived from CIFAR-100, CUB-200-2011, Places365, ImageNet, and ImageNet-100. Users are responsible for complying with the original license and terms of use of those datasets, which may restrict commercial use — notably ImageNet and CUB-200-2011, which are released for non-commercial research only.