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Contrastive learning has emerged as an efficient framework to learn multimodal representations. CLIP, a seminal work in this area, achieved impressive results by training on paired image-text data using the contrastive loss. Recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Enrico Fini , Pietro Astolfi , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Jakob Verbeek , Michal Drozdzal

Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP achieve zero-shot transfer across various tasks by pre-training on numerous image-text pairs. These models often benefit from using an ensemble of context prompts to represent a class. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhi Chen , Xin Yu , Xiaohui Tao , Yan Li , Zi Huang

Contrastive cross-modal models such as CLIP and CLAP aid various vision-language (VL) and audio-language (AL) tasks. However, there has been limited investigation of and improvement in their language encoder, which is the central component…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Mengjie Zhao , Junya Ono , Zhi Zhong , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Naoki Murata , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Takashi Shibuya , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, exhibit strong image-text comprehension abilities, facilitating advances in several downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification, image-text retrieval, and text-to-image generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Le Zhang , Rabiul Awal , Aishwarya Agrawal

Multi-modal contrastive models such as CLIP achieve state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot classification by embedding input images and texts on a joint representational space. Recently, a modality gap has been reported in two-encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Abrar Fahim , Alex Murphy , Alona Fyshe

Generalized Zero-shot Semantic Segmentation aims to segment both seen and unseen categories only under the supervision of the seen ones. To tackle this, existing methods adopt the large-scale Vision Language Models (VLMs) which obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jialei Chen , Daisuke Deguchi , Chenkai Zhang , Xu Zheng , Hiroshi Murase

Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) has achieved remarkable success across various downstream tasks, but such gains are largely driven by scaling up on training data. Yet, literature methods treat image-text pairs as isolated training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Wenbo Lu

Recent progress has shown that large-scale pre-training using contrastive image-text pairs can be a promising alternative for high-quality visual representation learning from natural language supervision. Benefiting from a broader source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yongming Rao , Wenliang Zhao , Guangyi Chen , Yansong Tang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Supervised visual captioning models typically require a large scale of images or videos paired with descriptions in a specific language (i.e., the vision-caption pairs) for training. However, collecting and labeling large-scale datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Bang Yang , Fenglin Liu , Xian Wu , Yaowei Wang , Xu Sun , Yuexian Zou

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

This paper proposes Comprehensive Pathology Language Image Pre-training (CPLIP), a new unsupervised technique designed to enhance the alignment of images and text in histopathology for tasks such as classification and segmentation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sajid Javed , Arif Mahmood , Iyyakutti Iyappan Ganapathi , Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Naoufel Werghi , Mohammed Bennamoun

Image-text contrastive learning models such as CLIP have demonstrated strong task transfer ability. The high generality and usability of these visual models is achieved via a web-scale data collection process to ensure broad concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Haotian Liu , Kilho Son , Jianwei Yang , Ce Liu , Jianfeng Gao , Yong Jae Lee , Chunyuan Li

Medical image classification plays a crucial role in clinical decision-making, yet most models are constrained to a fixed set of predefined classes, limiting their adaptability to new conditions. Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Stefan Denner , Markus Bujotzek , Dimitrios Bounias , David Zimmerer , Raphael Stock , Klaus Maier-Hein

Vision-language pre-training such as CLIP enables zero-shot transfer that can classify images according to the candidate class names. While CLIP demonstrates an impressive zero-shot performance on diverse downstream tasks, the distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Qi Qian , Juhua Hu

Vision-Language Pre-training has demonstrated its remarkable zero-shot recognition ability and potential to learn generalizable visual representations from language supervision. Taking a step ahead, language-supervised semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Yun Xing , Jian Kang , Aoran Xiao , Jiahao Nie , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have shown enhanced performance across a range of tasks that involve the integration of visual and linguistic modalities. When CLIP is used for depth estimation tasks, the patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Xueting Hu , Ce Zhang , Yi Zhang , Bowen Hai , Ke Yu , Zhihai He

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) uses contrastive learning from noise image-text pairs to excel at recognizing a wide array of candidates, yet its focus on broad associations hinders the precision in distinguishing subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ziyu Liu , Zeyi Sun , Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuanjun Xiong , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training, known as CLIP, has provided a new paradigm for learning visual representations by using large-scale contrastive image-text pairs. It shows impressive performance on zero-shot knowledge transfer to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Renrui Zhang , Rongyao Fang , Wei Zhang , Peng Gao , Kunchang Li , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao , Hongsheng Li

Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate strong generalization in zero-shot classification but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Existing methods primarily focus on adversarial fine-tuning or prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xingyu Zhu , Beier Zhu , Shuo Wang , Kesen Zhao , Hanwang Zhang

Large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot image recognition, yet their predictions remain largely opaque to human understanding. In contrast, Concept Bottleneck Models provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Onat Ozdemir , Anders Christensen , Stephan Alaniz , Zeynep Akata , Emre Akbas