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"I Know It When I See It": Mood Spaces for Connecting and Expressing Visual Concepts

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Pith's one-line read A Mood Space compressing pretrained image features 50-100x turns interpolation and visual analogy into vector arithmetic.

desk verdict The paper's core claim—that straight lines in Mood Space decode into smooth semantic paths—is not actually tested, because the path lifting is done in CLIP with a single decoded difference vector rather than by decoding points along the Mood Space path. read the letter →

arxiv 2504.15145 v1 pith:HSQEJ6BV submitted 2025-04-21 cs.CV

Huzheng Yang , Katherine Xu , Michael D. Grossberg , Yutong Bai , Jianbo Shi This is my paper · ORCID
classification cs.CV
keywords MoodSpacevisualconceptinterpolationspectralgraphembeddinglosslatentcompressionanalogyDINOfeaturesCLIPfiberbundleintuition
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The reading

The paper proposes that hard-to-name visual concepts can be expressed by curating a small Mood Board of 2-20 images, and that a 50-100x compressed latent space learned from these exemplars makes the concept controllable. It claims the key is to preserve not the raw features but the pairwise token affinity structure of a pretrained DINO space, specifically its top eigenvectors, while decoding into CLIP space for synthesis. In this Mood Space, straight-line interpolation and path-lifting analogies produce smoother and more consistent transitions than linear interpolation in the original CLIP space. Training uses two token-wise MLPs, requires no fine-tuning, and completes in under a minute.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is the spectral graph embedding loss: from all $N\times 256$ image-patch tokens, the paper builds a row-normalized RBF affinity matrix, computes its top eigenvectors, and forces the projected Mood Space tokens to reproduce the same eigenspace structure, compared via the projection matrices $E_i E_i^T$ at scales $i = 4, 8, 16, 32$. This preserves the coarse-to-fine hierarchical part-whole relations that DINO affinity encodes. The compression map $\pi_V: V \to M$ is described as an effective fiber bundle or fibration whose base $M$ parametrizes the controllable variation, while the decoder $\sigma_W: M \to W$ lifts paths back into CLIP space for rendering; curvature, repulsion, reconstruction, and variance regularizers jointly make $M$ locally linear and compact.

What would settle it

Take a pair of images that differ only by a global property DINO patch affinity barely changes, such as overall color temperature, and build a two-image Mood Board; if the learned straight-line path fails to shift that property while the CLIP-space baseline does, the spectral loss is preserving the wrong axes for that concept.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that a compact Mood Space $M$, learned by matching the top-eigenvector structure of row-normalized RBF affinity matrices between DINO token embeddings and their projections, is locally linear enough that ordinary vector operations become semantic image operations. The paper defines a 'connect' operation as straight-line interpolation in $M$, which decodes to a nonlinear curve in image space and supports object averaging, and a 'lift' operation that seeds the same curve at a different reference sample, supporting visual analogy and pose transfer. With as few as two curated context images, the learned space factors out irrelevant features and brings relevant foreground concepts closer, yielding smoother interpolations and more consistent swapped analogies than linear interpolation in CLIP space. The authors also show the same construction extends to text-token interpolation in prompt embeddings.

Load-bearing premise

The method assumes that the visual attribute the user wants to change is visible in the top eigenvectors of the DINO patch-token affinity matrix, so that preserving that eigenstructure in a small space also preserves the direction of change.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Users can express abstract visual concepts by curating a handful of example images and receive a working latent space in under a minute, with no fine-tuning of the pretrained models.
  • Interpolation in Mood Space produces more gradual transitions than linear interpolation in CLIP space, with lower maximum LPIPS and higher minimum CLIP similarity between consecutive frames.
  • Visual analogies completed by lifting a path to a different reference are more consistent when the analogy pair is swapped, approaching path integrability in the Mood Space.
  • The same spectral compression idea transfers from image tokens to text tokens, enabling smoother interpolation between natural-language prompts.
  • DINO-based token correspondence and the spectral loss are each necessary: correspondence preserves object count and structure, while the spectral loss connects the two concepts instead of leaving the output as a head from one object and a body from another.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The spectral loss can be read as aligning the low-dimensional space to the dominant eigenvectors of a spectral embedding; if that reading is right, straight-line interpolation in Mood Space approximates geodesic interpolation on the affinity manifold, which would explain the smoothness gain over naive CLIP interpolation.
  • Because DINO patch affinity encodes part-whole structure rather than global statistics, the method will likely fail for mood changes that are global (color grading, lighting, texture style) unless the affinity kernel is augmented with a global descriptor; this is a testable boundary of the method.
  • The consistency of swapped analogies suggests the learned space behaves like a local coordinate chart; testing whether the section $\sigma_W$ is approximately a bundle section on held-out tokens could turn the fiber-bundle intuition into a quantitative check.
  • The method's requirement of only 2-20 well-curated exemplars implies that the quality of the Mood Space depends on the user's curation skill; an automated exemplar-selection procedure that maximizes spectral distance between the intended attributes could make the approach more robust.
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Referee Report

4 major / 6 minor

Summary. This paper presents 'Mood Space', a low-dimensional latent representation learned from a small set of context images. A 4-layer MLP encoder maps DINO patch tokens to a space of dimension G (estimated via MLE), and a second MLP decodes back to CLIP tokens. The training objective combines a spectral loss that matches the top-eigenvector structure of a row-normalized RBF affinity matrix in the Mood Space to that in DINO space, a reconstruction loss, and several regularizers (curvature, repulsion, covariance). The authors claim that the resulting space is locally linear and compact, and that straight-line interpolation and 'path lifting' in it produce smoother visual transitions and more consistent visual analogies than linear interpolation in CLIP. Experiments include interpolation between ImageNet pairs, a visual analogy consistency task, ablations, an entropy analysis, and a small user study.

Significance. If the central claim held, the paper would offer a lightweight alternative to diffusion-based editing: training takes under a minute, requires no fine-tuning of the generative model, and uses only 2–20 exemplars. The authors' decision to evaluate with an analogy swap test (Section 4.2) is a genuine strength, as it tests generalization to combinations not directly seen in training. The ablations in Section 4.3, showing that DINO correspondence and the spectral loss affect the output, are informative. However, the paper's own supplementary (Section A.1) concedes that the fibration/lifting construction is used only 'as guidance', and the actual experiments use a single difference vector in CLIP space rather than pointwise decoding of the Mood Space path. This gap between the claimed mechanism and the executed experiments is the main reason the paper needs revision.

major comments (4)
  1. [Section 3.4] The definition γ̂(t)=wA1+t·σW(mA2−mA1) is not a pointwise lift of the path γ(t)=mA1+t·(mA2−mA1) in Mood Space. A pointwise lift would evaluate σW(γ(t)) at intermediate t, but the paper never computes σW(γ(t)) for any t outside the endpoints; instead, Section 3.5 moves each token by adding a per-cluster difference vector in W. Consequently, the smoothness numbers in Table 1 and the consistency numbers in Table 2 evaluate the decoder's behavior on a single difference direction, not the local linearity of M or the shape of the eigenvector-preserving embedding along the path. The supplementary Section A.1 explicitly notes that a segment-wise lifting 'could have' been used and that the fibration is only 'guidance'. To substantiate the abstract's claim that straight lines in Mood Space decode into meaningful semantic paths, the experiments must compute and render σW(γ(t)) at multiple t and compare those images against linear interpolation in W under the same renderer.
  2. [Section 3.3] The curvature loss Lcurv(Θ)=Σ_i ||R(i,Θ)||² is not defined. No formula, discretization, or estimation procedure is given for the 'Riemannian curvature tensor R' on the finite point cloud {m_Θ,i}. Since local linearity is a core property of the proposed space, this is a load-bearing gap rather than a minor omission. In addition, Table 5 sets λ1=1×10^-5 while the reconstruction weight λ3=1, so it is unclear whether the curvature term has any meaningful effect. The authors should either define R precisely, describe how it is computed from the point cloud, and ablate λ1, or remove the curvature term and argue local linearity from the spectral loss alone.
  3. [Section 3.3] The RBF width h in (S_V)_{i,j}=κ e^{−||v_i−v_j||²/h} is never specified. Because the spectral loss compares top eigenvectors of S_V and S_M, the value of h, and how it is chosen (per pair, global, scaled by dimension), directly controls the loss. Without specifying h and κ, the method is not reproducible. Please report the exact construction, including any normalization of distances before applying the RBF, and the values used in all experiments.
  4. [Section 4.2] The consistency test compares B2 = wA2 + σW(mB1−mA1) and B2' = wB1 + σW(mA2−mA1), both of which are straight-line additions in W of a single difference vector. This is a meaningful test of compositional consistency of difference vectors under σW, but it does not measure 'path integrability' or 'integrability of paths in the Mood Space' as claimed. Path integrability would require comparing two different lifts of the same curve, or comparing the endpoint of a pointwise lift of γ to the difference-vector result. As written, the quantitative evidence in Table 2 supports a weaker statement about the decoder's linearity over difference vectors, not about the geometric structure of M.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Section 3.2] There is a typo in the definition of the CLIP embedding: 'Let vi=TV(ui), and wi=TW(wi)' should be 'wi=TW(ui)'.
  2. [Algorithm 1] The loop variable 'i' over i∈{4,8,16,32,...,k} conflicts with the sample index i used throughout Section 3; rename the loop variable to avoid confusion.
  3. [Section 4.4] The entropy metric, especially 'Entropy (PCA eigvals)', is not defined precisely. It appears to be Shannon entropy over normalized eigenvalues of the PCA covariance, but the relationship between eigenvalue entropy and sampling uniformity should be stated explicitly.
  4. [Section 4.4] The comparison in Table 4 is not apples-to-apples because the Mood Space dimension G=22 is used while CLIP and DINO are projected to 250 dimensions for 'Entropy (PCA-ed)'. Report the entropy at matched dimensions or justify the difference.
  5. [Section 4.1] Please specify how the baseline linear interpolation is rendered—whether the same IP-Adapter [49] is used for both baseline and the proposed method—so that the smoothness comparison does not reflect renderer differences.
  6. [Abstract and Section 1] The phrase 'we invent a fibration computation' is informal and, as shown by the supplementary's caveat, potentially misleading; suggest 'we propose a compression/decompression scheme inspired by fibrations'.

Circularity Check

2 steps flagged · score 5.0 of 10

Interpolation metrics are computed on the very pair used to fit the Mood Space, and the implemented path-lifting equation decodes only a difference vector rather than points along the Mood Space path.

  1. fitted input called prediction [Section 4.1 (Quantitative Results) and Section 3.3 (Learning Mood Space and Maps)]
    "We train a separate Mood Space M for each pair of input images, and interpolate between the two input images."

    The two input images are the training set for that Mood Space: Section 3.3 minimizes Lrecon(Theta, Theta') = ||W - sigma_W,Theta'(M_Theta)||^2 with lambda_3 = 1 on the CLIP token matrix W of exactly those images, and Lspec matches the DINO affinity eigenstructure E(S_V) of the same tokens. Table 1 then reports Max/Min CLIP and LPIPS along the interpolation of those images, so the measured smoothness is in part a reconstruction consistency of the fitted decoder rather than a held-out prediction of a discovered manifold. The claim that the Mood Space 'finds the connections' is thus evaluated on the data used to define the connection. The analogy swap test provides some independent evidence, which limits the severity.

  2. other [Section 3.4 (Token Path Lifting) and Supplementary Section A.1]
    "lift each point on the path in M back to the CLIP space W via sigma_w: gamma_hat(t) = w_A1 + t * sigma_w(m_A2 - m_A1). ... We note that we could have taken a sequence of points ... and lift each segment of gamma between t_k and t_{k+1} via sigma_W to achieve path in W that more closely follows gamma([0,1]) subset M."

    The text says the purpose of sigma_W is 'lifting paths' and claims to lift 'each point' of gamma, but the displayed formula computes an affine line in W defined by one decoded difference vector, sigma_W(m_A2 - m_A1); it never evaluates sigma_W(gamma(t)) for intermediate t. The supplement explicitly concedes that a segment-wise lift that would more closely follow gamma([0,1]) subset M 'could have' been taken and was not, using the fibration only 'as guidance.' Therefore the smoothness and consistency results do not test local linearity or the geometry of M along the path; the operation reduces to applying the decoder to a single tangent vector. If sigma_W were approximately linear and endpoint-reconstructing, this is CLIP linear interpolation under another name.

full rationale

The paper is not a case of wholesale circularity: the spectral-loss objective is a real optimization on DINO affinity eigenvectors, the decoder is not directly trained to produce the intermediate interpolation points, and the analogy swap test in Section 4.2 compares two different paths and thereby checks a nontrivial consistency property. The normalized-cuts citations (Refs. 39 and 50) overlap with the authors but are standard, externally published results used as computational tools, not unverified uniqueness premises, so they do not raise the score under the self-citation rules. However, two load-bearing reductions keep the score in the middle range. First, the interpolation experiment fits a fresh Mood Space on the very pair of images whose interpolation is then measured; with the reconstruction loss at weight 1, the decoder is trained to reproduce the CLIP tokens of the endpoints, so the smoothness metrics partly measure self-consistency of the fitted mapping rather than a generalizable property. Second, the implemented path lifting does not decode points along the straight Mood Space path; it adds a single decoded difference vector in CLIP, and the supplement concedes that the pointwise segment lift was not used. Thus the central claim that straight lines in Mood Space decode into meaningful semantic paths is not actually exercised by the equations used in the experiments; the evidence depends on the decoder's action on one direction, not on the local linearity of M. These are structural issues rather than evidence of authorial intent, and the independent analogy consistency test prevents a higher score.

Assumptions & free parameters 6 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on several hand-chosen hyperparameters (dimension, kernel width, eigenvector count, loss weights, cluster count) and on the assumption that DINO affinity eigenvectors encode the user's intended concept. The undefined curvature term and the unspecified RBF width are the weakest links in the method as described.

free parameters (6)
  • Mood Space dimension G = 6-22 (MLE estimate on mood board tokens)
    Estimated via Levina-Bickel MLE from the DINO token set of the mood board (Section 3.3); determines bottleneck width of the MLP and controls compression ratio. It is data-dependent and not derived from first principles.
  • RBF kernel width h = not specified
    Used in both S_V and S_M affinity computations (Section 3.3); no heuristic or value is given, so results may be sensitive to this choice.
  • Spectral loss eigenvector count k = 32 (sliding sizes 4, 8, 16, 32)
    Chosen by hand; Algorithm 1 uses up to k=32 eigenvectors.
  • Loss weights lambda1, lambda2, lambda3, lambda4 = 1e-5, 1e-5, 1, 1e-5
    Regularization coefficients in Section C.1 Table 5; reconstruction dominates by five orders of magnitude, so the spectral and curvature terms are a small perturbation.
  • Token cluster count H = 10
    Used for image-level token path lifting (Section B); chosen by hand.
  • MLP architecture and training hyperparameters = 4 layers x 512 hidden, Adam lr 1e-3, 1000-10000 steps
    Implementation details, not theoretically motivated. They affect convergence and output quality.
assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption DINO token embeddings capture semantic correspondence and part-whole hierarchy.
    Used throughout; Section 2.2 states DINO is better at correspondence, and Figure 4 relies on part-level correspondence from DINO.
  • standard math Top eigenvectors of the row-normalized affinity matrix (Ncut) reveal relevant versus irrelevant structure.
    Borrowed from spectral clustering (Shi and Malik 2000), applied to token affinities in Section 3.3.
  • domain assumption CLIP features provide a space aligned with text semantics and can drive conditional diffusion rendering.
    Used in the reconstruction loss (Section 3.3) and rendering via IP-Adapter (Section 3.6).
  • domain assumption The intrinsic dimension MLE (Levina and Bickel 2004) gives a reliable estimate of the number of relevant degrees of freedom in DINO token clouds.
    Section 3.3 uses this to set the target dimension G.
  • ad hoc to paper A straight line in the compressed Mood Space corresponds to a semantically meaningful path when decoded.
    Assumed in Section 3.4 and 3.5; the paper motivates it via locality and curvature loss, but does not prove it.
  • ad hoc to paper The undefined curvature regularizer encourages local linearity.
    Section 3.3 states L_curv = sum of squared R(i, Theta) but never defines R; this is an assumed mechanism.
invented entities (1)
  • Mood Space (compressed latent representation) independent evidence
    purpose: A 6-22 dimensional token embedding space in which visual concepts can be connected by straight-line paths and lifted for analogy.
    It is a learned object, not a postulated physical entity, and its outputs can be rendered and compared, so it has a falsifiable handle via image generation; however, its existence is not independently verified outside the paper's experiments.

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Expressing complex concepts is easy when they can be labeled or quantified, but many ideas are hard to define yet instantly recognizable. We propose a Mood Board, where users convey abstract concepts with examples that hint at the intended direction of attribute changes. We compute an underlying Mood Space that 1) factors out irrelevant features and 2) finds the connections between images, thus bringing relevant concepts closer. We invent a fibration computation to compress/decompress pre-trained features into/from a compact space, 50-100x smaller. The main innovation is learning to mimic the pairwise affinity relationship of the image tokens across exemplars. To focus on the coarse-to-fine hierarchical structures in the Mood Space, we compute the top eigenvector structure from the affinity matrix and define a loss in the eigenvector space. The resulting Mood Space is locally linear and compact, allowing image-level operations, such as object averaging, visual analogy, and pose transfer, to be performed as a simple vector operation in Mood Space. Our learning is efficient in computation without any fine-tuning, needs only a few (2-20) exemplars, and takes less than a minute to learn.

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Figure 1. Imagine a fictional animal that is a crossbreed of a sheepdog and goldfish. No one has seen this animal, but we can recognize [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. We propose a context-specific DINO-to-CLIP mapping via a compressed Mood Space. First, we compute per-patch image token [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. We collect image patch tokens across the context images and compute affinity relationships based on the pre-trained features in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: For the two images shown left, we collect all the im [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Connecting concepts with inputs A and B. We compare our interpolation in Mood Space with the baseline linear interpolation in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Consistency of visual analogy. Visual analogy can be achieved by lifting the path between A1 and B1 to A2, obtaining a sample [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: We extend our Mood Space to text encoding. Using 700 prompts from the DiffusionDB dataset as the context set, our interpolation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Ablation study on DINO correspondence and spectral [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: We analyze the effect of interpolation and extrapolation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: In Token Path Lifting, we use DINO feature to do to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Image tokens in the Mood Space is more evenly distributed and connected than the original CLIP embedding space. This plot [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Mood Space compression bring in closer common relevant foreground object across two context images. Left: token similarity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: We use our Mood Space to interpolate a 2D toy example, and compare with a baseline 1) linear interpolation 2) use affinity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Interpolation results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_14.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Interpolation results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Interpolation results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_16.png]
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Interpolation results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_17.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Interpolation results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_18.png]
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Interpolation results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_19.png]
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Interpolation results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_20.png]
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Interpolation results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_21.png]
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Interpolation results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_22.png]
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Analogy results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). Top: First example. Bottom: Second example. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_23.png]
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Analogy results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). Top: First example. Bottom: Second example. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_24.png]
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Analogy results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). Top: First example. Bottom: Second example. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_25.png]
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Analogy results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). Top: First example. Bottom: Second example. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_26.png]
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Figure 27. Figure 27: Analogy results on Mood Space vs Original CLIP embedding space (baseline). Top: First example. Bottom: Second example. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_27.png]

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