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In recent years, large-scale pre-trained multimodal models (LMMs) generally emerge to integrate the vision and language modalities, achieving considerable success in multimodal tasks, such as text-image classification. The growing size of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Xinyao Yu , Hao Sun , Zeyu Ling , Ziwei Niu , Zhenjia Bai , Rui Qin , Yen-Wei Chen , Lanfen Lin

Language-Assisted Image Clustering (LAIC) augments the input images with additional texts with the help of vision-language models (VLMs) to promote clustering performance. Despite recent progress, existing LAIC methods often overlook two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jun Ma , Xu Zhang , Zhengxing Jiao , Yaxin Hou , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Yuheng Jia

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have transformed tasks requiring visual and reasoning abilities, such as image retrieval and Visual Question Answering (VQA). Despite their success, VLMs face significant challenges with tasks involving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ayush Singh , Mansi Gupta , Shivank Garg , Abhinav Kumar , Vansh Agrawal

Large-scale models trained on extensive datasets, have emerged as the preferred approach due to their high generalizability across various tasks. In-context learning (ICL), a popular strategy in natural language processing, uses such models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Jiahao Zhang , Bowen Wang , Liangzhi Li , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara

Prompt learning has emerged as a valuable technique in enhancing vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP for downstream tasks in specific domains. Existing work mainly focuses on designing various learning forms of prompts, neglecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Zheng Li , Xiang Li , Xinyi Fu , Xin Zhang , Weiqiang Wang , Shuo Chen , Jian Yang

Prompt learning has achieved great success in efficiently exploiting large-scale pre-trained models in natural language processing (NLP). It reformulates the downstream tasks as the generative pre-training ones to achieve consistency, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Ning Liao , Bowen Shi , Xiaopeng Zhang , Min Cao , Junchi Yan , Qi Tian

Going beyond mere fine-tuning of vision-language models (VLMs), learnable prompt tuning has emerged as a promising, resource-efficient alternative. Despite their potential, effectively learning prompts faces the following challenges: (i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla , Sai Srinivas Kancheti , Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Image captioning is a challenging problem owing to the complexity in understanding the image content and diverse ways of describing it in natural language. Recent advances in deep neural networks have substantially improved the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Zhou Ren , Xiaoyu Wang , Ning Zhang , Xutao Lv , Li-Jia Li

Image captioning is a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, where the model predicts a textual informative caption to a given input image. In this paper, we present a simple approach to address this task. We use CLIP encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ron Mokady , Amir Hertz , Amit H. Bermano

Remote sensing image captioning has advanced rapidly through encoder--decoder models, although the reliance on large annotated datasets and the focus on English restricts global applicability. To address these limitations, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Carlos Rebelo , Gil Rocha , João Daniel Silva , Bruno Martins

Recent advances in large pre-trained vision-language models have demonstrated remarkable performance on zero-shot downstream tasks. Building upon this, recent studies, such as CoOp and CoCoOp, have proposed the use of prompt learning, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Gahyeon Kim , Sohee Kim , Seokju Lee

We learn visual features by captioning images with an image-conditioned masked diffusion language model, a formulation we call masked diffusion captioning (MDC). During training, text tokens in each image-caption pair are masked at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Chao Feng , Zihao Wei , Andrew Owens

Medical image captioning via vision-language models has shown promising potential for clinical diagnosis assistance. However, generating contextually relevant descriptions with accurate modality recognition remains challenging. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yining Zhao , Ali Braytee , Mukesh Prasad

The existing image captioning approaches typically train a one-stage sentence decoder, which is difficult to generate rich fine-grained descriptions. On the other hand, multi-stage image caption model is hard to train due to the vanishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Jiuxiang Gu , Jianfei Cai , Gang Wang , Tsuhan Chen

Universal Cross-Domain Retrieval (UCDR) retrieves relevant images from unseen domains and classes without semantic labels, ensuring robust generalization. Existing methods commonly employ prompt tuning with pre-trained vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Haoyu Jiang , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Gabriel Moreira , Jiawen Zhu , Jingdong Sun , Bukun Ren , Jun-Yan He , Qi Dai , Xian-Sheng Hua

In-context learning allows adapting a model to new tasks given a task description at test time. In this paper, we present IMProv - a generative model that is able to in-context learn visual tasks from multimodal prompts. Given a textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jiarui Xu , Yossi Gandelsman , Amir Bar , Jianwei Yang , Jianfeng Gao , Trevor Darrell , Xiaolong Wang

While many BERT-based cross-modal pre-trained models produce excellent results on downstream understanding tasks like image-text retrieval and VQA, they cannot be applied to generation tasks directly. In this paper, we propose XGPT, a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Qiaolin Xia , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Dongdong Zhang , Lei Ji , Zhifang Sui , Edward Cui , Taroon Bharti , Xin Liu , Ming Zhou

Prompt tuning has become a popular strategy for adapting Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to zero/few-shot visual recognition tasks. Some prompting techniques introduce prior knowledge due to its richness, but when learnable tokens are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shuchang Zhou , Jiwei Wei , Shiyuan He , Yuyang Zhou , Chaoning Zhang , Jie Zou , Ning Xie , Yang Yang

Image captioning, a popular topic in computer vision, has achieved substantial progress in recent years. However, the distinctiveness of natural descriptions is often overlooked in previous work. It is closely related to the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

Most existing vision-language pre-training methods focus on understanding tasks and use BERT-like objectives (masked language modeling and image-text matching) during pretraining. Although they perform well in many understanding downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Tianyi Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Wenhan Xiong , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang