I have been playing with MetaCLIP this afternoon and made https://github.com/autodistill/autodistill-metaclip as a pip installable version. The Facebook repository has some guidance but you have to pull the weights yourself, save them, etc.

My inference function (model.predict("image.png")) return an sv.Classifications object that you can load into supervision for processing (i.e. get top k) [1].

The paper [2] notes the following in terms of performance:

> In Table 4, we observe that MetaCLIP outperforms OpenAI CLIP on ImageNet and average accuracy across 26 tasks, for 3 model scales. With 400 million training data points on ViT-B/32, MetaCLIP outperforms CLIP by +2.1% on ImageNet and by +1.6% on average. On ViT-B/16, MetaCLIP outperforms CLIP by +2.5% on ImageNet and by +1.5% on average. On ViT-L/14, MetaCLIP outperforms CLIP by +0.7% on ImageNet and by +1.4% on average across the 26 tasks.

[1] https://github.com/autodistill/autodistill-metaclip [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.16671.pdf