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Vision-language (VL) pretrained models have achieved impressive performance on multimodal reasoning and zero-shot recognition tasks. Many of these VL models are pretrained on unlabeled image and caption pairs from the internet. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Tian Yun , Usha Bhalla , Ellie Pavlick , Chen Sun

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of 3D concept grounding (i.e. segmenting and learning visual concepts) by looking at RGBD images and reasoning about paired questions and answers. Existing visual reasoning approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Yining Hong , Yilun Du , Chunru Lin , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

In this article we revisit the concept of abstraction as it is used in visualization and put it on a solid formal footing. While the term \emph{abstraction} is utilized in many scientific disciplines, arts, as well as everyday life,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ivan Viola , Min Chen , Tobias Isenberg

Learning vector representation for words is an important research field which may benefit many natural language processing tasks. Two limitations exist in nearly all available models, which are the bias caused by the context definition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Xuefeng Yang , Kezhi Mao

Humans can recognize an image as an instance of a general concept, beyond simply identifying its objects and their relationships. In this paper, we investigate 1. The extent to which VLMs have this concept abstraction capacity, and 2.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Omri Suissa , Muhiim Ali , Shengmai Chen , Yinuo Cai , Shekhar Pradhan

Visual representation learning has been a cornerstone in computer vision, involving typical forms such as visual embeddings, structural symbols, and text-based representations. Despite the success of CLIP-type visual embeddings, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yiwu Zhong , Zi-Yuan Hu , Michael R. Lyu , Liwei Wang

Human intelligence effortlessly interprets visual scenes along a rich spectrum of semantic dimensions. However, existing approaches to language-grounded visual concept learning are limited to a few predefined primitive axes, such as color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Whie Jung , Semin Kim , Junee Kim , Seunghoon Hong

State-of-the-art approaches for image captioning require supervised training data consisting of captions with paired image data. These methods are typically unable to use unsupervised data such as textual data with no corresponding images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Wenhu Chen , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Recent self-supervised models have demonstrated equal or better performance than supervised methods, opening for AI systems to learn visual representations from practically unlimited data. However, these methods are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Robin Karlsson , Tomoki Hayashi , Keisuke Fujii , Alexander Carballo , Kento Ohtani , Kazuya Takeda

Large multimodal models such as Stable Diffusion can generate, detect, and classify new visual concepts after fine-tuning just a single word embedding. Do models learn similar words for the same concepts (i.e. <orange-cat> = orange + cat)?…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Brandon Trabucco , Max Gurinas , Kyle Doherty , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Recent advances in zero-shot image recognition suggest that vision-language models learn generic visual representations with a high degree of semantic information that may be arbitrarily probed with natural language phrases. Understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Brandon McKinzie , Sachin Ravi , Yinfei Yang , Alexander Toshev , Jonathon Shlens

To interpret deep models' predictions, attention-based visual cues are widely used in addressing \textit{why} deep models make such predictions. Beyond that, the current research community becomes more interested in reasoning \textit{how}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Wenxiao Xiao , Zhengming Ding , Hongfu Liu

We propose the Neuro-Symbolic Concept Learner (NS-CL), a model that learns visual concepts, words, and semantic parsing of sentences without explicit supervision on any of them; instead, our model learns by simply looking at images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Jiayuan Mao , Chuang Gan , Pushmeet Kohli , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu

Human cognition excels at symbolic reasoning, deducing abstract rules from limited samples. This has been explained using symbolic and connectionist approaches, inspiring the development of a neuro-symbolic architecture that combines both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mohamed Mejri , Chandramouli Amarnath , Abhijit Chatterjee

Although an object may appear in numerous contexts, we often describe it in a limited number of ways. Language allows us to abstract away visual variation to represent and communicate concepts. Building on this intuition, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Mohamed El Banani , Karan Desai , Justin Johnson

Lexical Semantics is concerned with how words encode mental representations of the world, i.e., concepts . We call this type of concepts, classification concepts . In this paper, we focus on Visual Semantics , namely on how humans build…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Fausto Giunchiglia , Luca Erculiani , Andrea Passerini

Vision-language contrastive learning frameworks such as CLIP enable learning representations from natural language supervision and provide strong zero-shot classification capabilities. However, due to the nature of the supervisory signal in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mohammed Baharoon , Jonathan Klein , Dominik L. Michels

Cross-view spatial reasoning remains a weak spot for vision-language models (VLMs): they often reason in language and lose the fine-grained geometry needed for the task. Thinking with images aims to address this by generating an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Qian Yang , Ankur Sikarwar , Huy Le , Le Zhang , Zhuan Shi , Perouz Taslakian , Aishwarya Agrawal

Recent advances in language modeling have witnessed the rise of highly desirable emergent capabilities, such as reasoning and in-context learning. However, vision models have yet to exhibit comparable progress in these areas. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jike Zhong , Yuxiang Lai , Xiaofeng Yang , Konstantinos Psounis

Traditional neural embeddings represent concepts as points, excelling at similarity but struggling with higher-level reasoning and asymmetric relationships. We introduce a novel paradigm: embedding concepts as linear subspaces. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Gabriel Moreira , Zita Marinho , Manuel Marques , João Paulo Costeira , Chenyan Xiong