Gradio UI with image and text search tabs returning ranked car damage images from Oracle 26ai, with a dataframe showing claim ID, label, cosine distance, and description

CLIP in Oracle 26ai: A Gradio UI for Qualitative Encoder Validation

SQL distance metrics confirm that CLIP’s shared vector space is geometrically organized. A Gradio UI confirms whether the results are meaningful to a human reviewer. This post builds that prototype and uses it to surface CLIP’s real constraints on a car damage dataset: class confusion in the dent category, complete accuracy inversion on French-language glass shatter queries, and a search engine that returns results for every input regardless of domain fit.

May 31, 2026 · 14 min · Hicham Assoudi