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Prompt tuning (PT) which only tunes the embeddings of an additional sequence of tokens per task, keeping the pre-trained language model (PLM) frozen, has shown remarkable performance in few-shot learning. Despite this, PT has been shown to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Chengwei Qin , Qian Li , Ruochen Zhao , Shafiq Joty

We propose structured prompt tuning, a simple and effective method to improve prompt tuning. Instead of prepending a sequence of tunable embeddings to the input, we generate the soft prompt embeddings through a hypernetwork. Our approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Chi-Liang Liu , Hung-yi Lee , Wen-tau Yih

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

Prompt tuning has been an extremely effective tool to adapt a pre-trained model to downstream tasks. However, standard prompt-based methods mainly consider the case of sufficient data of downstream tasks. It is still unclear whether the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ping Yu , Wei Wang , Chunyuan Li , Ruiyi Zhang , Zhanpeng Jin , Changyou Chen

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities to downstream tasks. However, existing prompt tuning based frameworks need to parallelize learnable textual inputs for all categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hao Tan , Jun Li , Yizhuang Zhou , Jun Wan , Zhen Lei , Xiangyu Zhang

With the increasing attention to large vision-language models such as CLIP, there has been a significant amount of effort dedicated to building efficient prompts. Unlike conventional methods of only learning one single prompt, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Guangyi Chen , Weiran Yao , Xiangchen Song , Xinyue Li , Yongming Rao , Kun Zhang

In prompt tuning, a prefix or suffix text is added to the prompt, and the embeddings (soft prompts) or token indices (hard prompts) of the prefix/suffix are optimized to gain more control over language models for specific tasks. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Shouchang Guo , Sonam Damani , Keng-hao Chang

Vision Transformers (ViT) and Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) achieve state-of-the-art performance with improved efficiency in various computer vision tasks. This suggests a promising paradigm shift of adapting pre-trained ViT models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Wenlong Deng , Christos Thrampoulidis , Xiaoxiao Li

The choice of input text prompt plays a critical role in the performance of Vision-Language Pretrained (VLP) models such as CLIP. We present APoLLo, a unified multi-modal approach that combines Adapter and Prompt learning for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Sanjoy Chowdhury , Sayan Nag , Dinesh Manocha

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have shown strong generalization under zero-shot settings, yet adapting them to downstream tasks with limited supervision remains a significant challenge. Existing multi-modal prompt learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Silin Cheng , Kai Han

The Vision Language Model (VLM) excels in aligning vision and language representations, and prompt learning has emerged as a key technique for adapting such models to downstream tasks. However, the application of prompt learning with VLM in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zhihao Wang , Wenke Huang , Tian Chen , Zekun Shi , Guancheng Wan , Yu Qiao , Bin Yang , Jian Wang , Bing Li , Mang Ye

Large-scale vision-language pre-trained models have shown promising transferability to various downstream tasks. As the size of these foundation models and the number of downstream tasks grow, the standard full fine-tuning paradigm becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Haoyu Lu , Yuqi Huo , Guoxing Yang , Zhiwu Lu , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Mingyu Ding

Prompt tuning has shown promising results, but its robustness and generalization to unseen categories remain limited. Through our experiments, we demonstrate that the complete removal of semantic noise is a key factor restricting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yansheng Gao , Yufei Zheng , Shengsheng Wang

Prompting a pretrained language model with natural language patterns has been proved effective for natural language understanding (NLU). However, our preliminary study reveals that manual discrete prompts often lead to unstable performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Xiao Liu , Yanan Zheng , Zhengxiao Du , Ming Ding , Yujie Qian , Zhilin Yang , Jie Tang

The development of large vision-language models, notably CLIP, has catalyzed research into effective adaptation techniques, with a particular focus on soft prompt tuning. Conjointly, test-time augmentation, which utilizes multiple augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Maxime Zanella , Ismail Ben Ayed

Prompt tuning adapts Vision-Language Models like CLIP to open-world tasks with minimal training costs. In this direction, one typical paradigm evaluates model performance separately on known classes (i.e., base domain) and unseen classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Cong Hua , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Zitai Wang , Shilong Bao , Qingming Huang

Pre-trained vision-language models such as CLIP exhibit strong transferability, yet adapting them to downstream image classification tasks under limited annotation budgets remains challenging. In active learning settings, the model must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Qian-Wei Wang , Yaguang Song , Shu-Tao Xia

Visual prompt tuning offers significant advantages for adapting pre-trained visual foundation models to specific tasks. However, current research provides limited insight into the interpretability of this approach, which is essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yubin Wang , Xinyang Jiang , De Cheng , Xiangqian Zhao , Zilong Wang , Dongsheng Li , Cairong Zhao

Soft prompt tuning achieves superior performances across a wide range of few-shot tasks. However, the performances of prompt tuning can be highly sensitive to the initialization of the prompts. We also empirically observe that conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Junda Wu , Tong Yu , Rui Wang , Zhao Song , Ruiyi Zhang , Handong Zhao , Chaochao Lu , Shuai Li , Ricardo Henao

Fine-tuning large pre-trained language models on downstream tasks has become the de-facto learning paradigm in NLP. However, conventional approaches fine-tune all the parameters of the pre-trained model, which becomes prohibitive as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Junxian He , Chunting Zhou , Xuezhe Ma , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Graham Neubig