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Vision-and-language models (VLMs) have been increasingly explored in the medical domain, particularly following the success of CLIP in general domain. However, unlike the relatively straightforward pairing of 2D images and text, curating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ziyang Zhang , Yang Yu , Xulei Yang , Si Yong Yeo

Despite significant advances in vision-language models (VLMs), most existing work follows an English-centric design process, limiting their effectiveness in multilingual settings. In this work, we provide a comprehensive empirical study…

The pretrain-finetune paradigm usually improves downstream performance over training a model from scratch on the same task, becoming commonplace across many areas of machine learning. While pretraining is empirically observed to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Gabriele Merlin , Vedant Nanda , Ruchit Rawal , Mariya Toneva

Vision-and-language pre-training has achieved impressive success in learning multimodal representations between vision and language. To generalize this success to non-English languages, we introduce UC2, the first machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Mingyang Zhou , Luowei Zhou , Shuohang Wang , Yu Cheng , Linjie Li , Zhou Yu , Jingjing Liu

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) aims to enable embodied agents to navigate in realistic environments using natural language instructions. Given the scarcity of domain-specific training data and the high diversity of image and language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Pierre-Louis Guhur , Makarand Tapaswi , Shizhe Chen , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

We propose VALSE (Vision And Language Structured Evaluation), a novel benchmark designed for testing general-purpose pretrained vision and language (V&L) models for their visio-linguistic grounding capabilities on specific linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Letitia Parcalabescu , Michele Cafagna , Lilitta Muradjan , Anette Frank , Iacer Calixto , Albert Gatt

Integrating vision and language has long been a dream in work on artificial intelligence (AI). In the past two years, we have witnessed an explosion of work that brings together vision and language from images to videos and beyond. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Francis Ferraro , Nasrin Mostafazadeh , Ting-Hao , Huang , Lucy Vanderwende , Jacob Devlin , Michel Galley , Margaret Mitchell

Vision-and-language tasks are gaining popularity in the research community, but the focus is still mainly on English. We propose a pipeline that utilizes English-only vision-language models to train a monolingual model for a target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Kshitij Gupta , Devansh Gautam , Radhika Mamidi

Transferring knowledge from task-agnostic pre-trained deep models for downstream tasks is an important topic in computer vision research. Along with the growth of computational capacity, we now have open-source vision-language pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Wenhao Wu , Zhun Sun , Wanli Ouyang

In the Vision-and-Language Navigation task, the embodied agent follows linguistic instructions and navigates to a specific goal. It is important in many practical scenarios and has attracted extensive attention from both computer vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Sinan Tan , Mengmeng Ge , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

With the urgent demand for generalized deep models, many pre-trained big models are proposed, such as BERT, ViT, GPT, etc. Inspired by the success of these models in single domains (like computer vision and natural language processing), the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Xiao Wang , Guangyao Chen , Guangwu Qian , Pengcheng Gao , Xiao-Yong Wei , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Wen Gao

Deep learning has recently become one of the most popular sub-fields of machine learning owing to its distributed data representation with multiple levels of abstraction. A diverse range of deep learning algorithms are being employed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Rajat Kumar Sinha , Ruchi Pandey , Rohan Pattnaik

Cross-lingual text classification leverages text classifiers trained in a high-resource language to perform text classification in other languages with no or minimal fine-tuning (zero/few-shots cross-lingual transfer). Nowadays,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Gholamreza Haffari , Massimo Piccardi

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a variety of real-world tasks. However, existing VLMs typically process visual information by serializing images, a method that diverges significantly from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yueyan Li , Chenggong Zhao , Zeyuan Zang , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang

Vision-and-Language Pre-training (VLP) has improved performance on various joint vision-and-language downstream tasks. Current approaches to VLP heavily rely on image feature extraction processes, most of which involve region supervision…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-11 Wonjae Kim , Bokyung Son , Ildoo Kim

Pre-trained machine learning (ML) models have shown great performance for a wide range of applications, in particular in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). Here, we study how pre-training could be used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Shashank Subramanian , Peter Harrington , Kurt Keutzer , Wahid Bhimji , Dmitriy Morozov , Michael Mahoney , Amir Gholami

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a core challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to navigate real-world environments using natural language instructions. Current language model-based navigation systems operate on discrete topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhangyang Qi , Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhou Yu , Jiaqi Wang , Hengshuang Zhao

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a valuable and robust training methodology for contemporary Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), enabling unsupervised pretraining on a 'pretext task' that does not require ground-truth labels/annotation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sotirios Konstantakos , Jorgen Cani , Ioannis Mademlis , Despina Ioanna Chalkiadaki , Yuki M. Asano , Efstratios Gavves , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in processing both visual and textual information. However, the critical challenge of alignment between visual and textual representations is not fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Dong Shu , Haiyan Zhao , Jingyu Hu , Weiru Liu , Ali Payani , Lu Cheng , Mengnan Du

Linguistic representations derived from text alone have been criticized for their lack of grounding, i.e., connecting words to their meanings in the physical world. Vision-and-Language (VL) models, trained jointly on text and image or video…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Tian Yun , Chen Sun , Ellie Pavlick