CLIPScore
Source: https://github.com/jmhessel/clipscore
Structured fields
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},
"checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
"usefulness": "Original code for CLIPScore (EMNLP 2021), a reference-free image-text alignment metric based on CLIP; the common 'prompt-match' number in text-to-image and video papers.",
"source_type": "repository",
"availability": "available",
"source_owner": "Jack Hessel et al.",
"next_check_at": "2026-11-16T00:00:00.000Z",
"known_limitations": [
"Saturates on detailed prompts; CLIP-version dependent; code inactive since 2022."
],
"upstream_updated_at": "2022-12-16T23:47:24.000Z"
}Evidence claims
- [sourced_fact] README: code for the EMNLP 2021 paper CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioning; the metric needs no reference captions. · locator: README intro source
- [sourced_fact] Repo metadata: MIT (Copyright 2021 Hessel et al.), not archived, last push 2022-12-16. · locator: GitHub API fields; LICENSE header source
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.
Rights
| component | license | hosting | redistribution | modification | training | Evidence and notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | MIT | permitted | permitted | permitted | unknown | MIT; CLIP weights have separate terms. |