Metric & Benchmark

CLIP Score

Cosine similarity between CLIP embeddings of a prompt and a generated image.

Definition

CLIP Score evaluates text-to-image alignment by computing cosine similarity between the CLIP text embedding of the prompt and the CLIP image embedding of the generated picture. It complements FID, which measures distribution match rather than prompt adherence.

Common use cases

  • Text-to-image eval
  • Prompt-adherence ranking

Related terms

    CLIP Score — AI Glossary | Railwail