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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a cornerstone in vision-language representation learning, powering diverse downstream tasks and serving as the default vision backbone in multimodal large language models (MLLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Chuan Qin , Constantin Venhoff , Sonia Joseph , Fanyi Xiao , Stefan Scherer

Vision-Language Pre-Trained models, notably CLIP, that utilize contrastive learning have proven highly adept at extracting generalizable visual features. To inherit the well-learned knowledge of VLP models for downstream tasks, several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yi Zhang , Weicheng Lin , Liang-Jie Zhang

The ratio of outlier parameters in language pre-training models and vision pre-training models differs significantly, making cross-modality (language and vision) inherently more challenging than cross-domain adaptation. As a result, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yaxin Luo , Zhiqiang Shen

Pre-trained multi-modal Vision-Language Models like CLIP are widely used off-the-shelf for a variety of applications. In this paper, we show that the common practice of individually exploiting the text or image encoders of these powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Marco Mistretta , Alberto Baldrati , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Marco Bertini , Andrew D. Bagdanov

Given a query composed of a reference image and a relative caption, the Composed Image Retrieval goal is to retrieve images visually similar to the reference one that integrates the modifications expressed by the caption. Given that recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Alberto Baldrati , Marco Bertini , Tiberio Uricchio , Alberto del Bimbo

Recently, textual prompt tuning has shown inspirational performance in adapting Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models to natural image quality assessment. However, such uni-modal prompt learning method only tunes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Jun Fu , Wei Zhou , Qiuping Jiang , Hantao Liu , Guangtao Zhai

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

Multimodal models like CLIP have gained significant attention due to their remarkable zero-shot performance across various tasks. However, studies have revealed that CLIP can inadvertently learn spurious associations between target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Wei Jie Yeo , Rui Mao , Moloud Abdar , Erik Cambria , Ranjan Satapathy

This work aims to adapt large-scale pre-trained vision-language models, such as contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP), to enhance the performance of object reidentification (Re-ID) across various supervision settings. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jiachen Li , Xiaojin Gong

CLIP has shown a remarkable zero-shot capability on a wide range of vision tasks. Previously, CLIP is only regarded as a powerful visual encoder. However, after being pre-trained by language supervision from a large amount of image-caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Haoyu Song , Li Dong , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu , Furu Wei

We propose Context-Adaptive Multi-Prompt Embedding, a novel approach to enrich semantic representations in vision-language contrastive learning. Unlike standard CLIP-style models that rely on a single text embedding, our method introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Dahun Kim , Anelia Angelova

Vision and Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have enabled visual recognition of a potentially unlimited set of categories described by text prompts. However, for the best visual recognition performance, these models still require tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Leonid Karlinsky , Wei Lin , Horst Possegger , Rogerio Feris , Horst Bischof

Vision language models such as CLIP have shown remarkable performance in zero shot classification, but remain susceptible to spurious correlations, where irrelevant visual features influence predictions. Existing debiasing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Fangyu Wu , Yujun Cai

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) achieves remarkable performance in various downstream tasks through the alignment of image and text input embeddings and holds great promise for anomaly detection. However, our empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Adam Goodge , Bryan Hooi , Wee Siong Ng

Visual imagery does not consist of solitary objects, but instead reflects the composition of a multitude of fluid concepts. While there have been great advances in visual representation learning, such advances have focused on building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Austin Stone , Hagen Soltau , Robert Geirhos , Xi Yi , Ye Xia , Bingyi Cao , Kaifeng Chen , Abhijit Ogale , Jonathon Shlens

Vision-language models such as CLIP have shown great impact on diverse downstream tasks for zero-shot or label-free predictions. However, when it comes to low-level vision such as image restoration their performance deteriorates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

As powerful pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP gain prominence, numerous studies have attempted to combine VLMs for downstream tasks. Among these, prompt learning has been validated as an effective method for adapting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yu Du , Tong Niu , Rong Zhao

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) have seen remarkable success in visual recognition, highlighting the increasing need to safeguard the intellectual property (IP) of well-trained models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Lianyu Wang , Meng Wang , Huazhu Fu , Daoqiang Zhang

We focus on domain and class generalization problems in analyzing optical remote sensing images, using the large-scale pre-trained vision-language model (VLM), CLIP. While contrastively trained VLMs show impressive zero-shot generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Avigyan Bhattacharya , Mainak Singha , Ankit Jha , Biplab Banerjee

Machine learning models have been shown to inherit biases from their training datasets. This can be particularly problematic for vision-language foundation models trained on uncurated datasets scraped from the internet. The biases can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ching-Yao Chuang , Varun Jampani , Yuanzhen Li , Antonio Torralba , Stefanie Jegelka