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Large pretrained vision-language models like CLIP have shown promising generalization capability, but may struggle in specialized domains (e.g., satellite imagery) or fine-grained classification (e.g., car models) where the visual concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Chen Huang , Skyler Seto , Samira Abnar , David Grangier , Navdeep Jaitly , Josh Susskind

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved significant zero-shot performance on downstream tasks with various fine-tuning adaptation methods. However, recent studies have proven that adversarial attacks can significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jia-Wei Hai , Yijun Wang , Xiu-Shen Wei

Recent studies have revealed the intriguing few-shot learning ability of pretrained language models (PLMs): They can quickly adapt to a new task when fine-tuned on a small amount of labeled data formulated as prompts, without requiring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yu Meng , Martin Michalski , Jiaxin Huang , Yu Zhang , Tarek Abdelzaher , Jiawei Han

Pretrained language models can be effectively stimulated by textual prompts or demonstrations, especially in low-data scenarios. Recent works have focused on automatically searching discrete or continuous prompts or optimized verbalizers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Xiaozhuan Liang , Ningyu Zhang , Siyuan Cheng , Zhenru Zhang , Chuanqi Tan , Huajun Chen

Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) links vision and language modalities into a unified embedding space, yielding the tremendous potential for vision-language (VL) tasks. While early concurrent works have begun to study this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhecan Wang , Noel Codella , Yen-Chun Chen , Luowei Zhou , Jianwei Yang , Xiyang Dai , Bin Xiao , Haoxuan You , Shih-Fu Chang , Lu Yuan

Although massive pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP show impressive generalization capabilities for many tasks, still it often remains necessary to fine-tune them for improved performance on specific datasets. When doing so, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Moritz Ibing , Isaak Lim , Leif Kobbelt

Visual Language Models such as CLIP excel in image recognition due to extensive image-text pre-training. However, applying the CLIP inference in zero-shot classification, particularly for medical image diagnosis, faces challenges due to: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jiaxiang Liu , Tianxiang Hu , Jiawei Du , Ruiyuan Zhang , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Zuozhu Liu

Large-scale vision-language (V-L) models have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities for downstream tasks through prompt tuning. However, the mechanisms behind the learned text representations are unknown, limiting further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Didi Zhu , Zexi Li , Min Zhang , Junkun Yuan , Yunfeng Shao , Jiashuo Liu , Kun Kuang , Yinchuan Li , Chao Wu

Despite the great promise of Prompt Tuning (PT) in adapting large Vision-Language Pretrained Models (VLPMs) to downstream tasks, they often struggle to overcome the Base-New Tradeoff (BNT) dilemma: as VLPMs are better tuned to a base task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ji Zhang , Shihan Wu , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Nicu Sebe , Heng Tao Shen

The application of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) in Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) research powerful cross-modal semantic understanding capabilities. Existing methods attempt to optimize input text prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhongxing Xu , Feilong Tang , Zhe Chen , Yingxue Su , Zhiyi Zhao , Ge Zhang , Jionglong Su , Zongyuan Ge

Contrastive vision-language models continue to be the dominant approach for image and text retrieval. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) trains two neural networks in contrastive manner to align their image and text embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kwun Ho Ngan , Saman Sadeghi Afgeh , Joe Townsend , Artur d'Avila Garcez

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, establish the correlation between texts and images, achieving remarkable success on various downstream tasks with fine-tuning. In existing fine-tuning methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yi Zhang , Ce Zhang , Yushun Tang , Zhihai He

Prompt tuning (PT) is an effective approach to adapting pre-trained language models to downstream tasks. Without a good initialization, prompt tuning doesn't perform well under few-shot settings. So pre-trained prompt tuning (PPT) is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Yukun Huang , Kun Qian , Zhou Yu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) learns rich representations via readily available supervision of natural language. It improves the performance of downstream vision tasks, including but not limited to the zero-shot, long tail,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yi Li , Hualiang Wang , Yiqun Duan , Hang Xu , Xiaomeng Li

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive zero-shot generalization through large-scale image-text pretraining, yet their performance can drop once the deployment distribution diverges from the training distribution. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaozhen Qiao , Jingkai Zhao , Yuqiu Jiang , Xianda Guo , Zhe Sun , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

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

Recent multimodal models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have shown remarkable ability to align visual and linguistic representations. However, domains where small visual differences carry large semantic significance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hiroshi Sasaki

Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training, known as CLIP, has shown promising effectiveness in addressing downstream image recognition tasks. However, recent works revealed that the CLIP model can be implanted with a downstream-oriented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Jiawang Bai , Kuofeng Gao , Shaobo Min , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training, benefiting from large-scale unlabeled text-image pairs, has demonstrated great performance in open-world vision understanding tasks. However, due to the limited Text-3D data pairs, adapting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yihan Zeng , Chenhan Jiang , Jiageng Mao , Jianhua Han , Chaoqiang Ye , Qingqiu Huang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Zhen Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Hang Xu

Driven by large-scale contrastive vision-language pre-trained models such as CLIP, recent advancements in the image-text matching task have achieved remarkable success in representation learning. Due to image-level visual-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mengxiao Tian , Xinxiao Wu , Shuo Yang