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Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated strong zero-shot performance across diverse downstream text-image tasks. Existing CLIP methods typically optimize a contrastive objective using negative samples drawn from each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Haotian Sun , Yitong Li , Yuchen Zhuang , Niao He , Hanjun Dai , Bo Dai

Multi-modal learning has become increasingly popular due to its ability to leverage information from different data sources (e.g., text and images) to improve the model performance. Recently, CLIP has emerged as an effective approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zixiang Chen , Yihe Deng , Yuanzhi Li , Quanquan Gu

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents unprecedented opportunities to revolutionize medical contrastive vision-language pre-training. In this paper, we show how LLMs can facilitate large-scale supervised pre-training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yingtai Li , Haoran Lai , Xiaoqian Zhou , Shuai Ming , Wenxin Ma , Wei Wei , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

Despite the recent success of image-text contrastive models like CLIP and SigLIP, these models often struggle with vision-centric tasks that demand high-fidelity image understanding, such as counting, depth estimation, and fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zineng Tang , Long Lian , Seun Eisape , XuDong Wang , Roei Herzig , Adam Yala , Alane Suhr , Trevor Darrell , David M. Chan

Contrastive learning -- a modern approach to extract useful representations from unlabeled data by training models to distinguish similar samples from dissimilar ones -- has driven significant progress in foundation models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Licong Lin , Song Mei

Vision-language pre-training like CLIP has shown promising performance on various downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification and image-text retrieval. Most of the existing CLIP-alike works usually adopt relatively large image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ying Nie , Wei He , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Tianyu Guo , Fanyi Du , Yunhe Wang

Contrastive vision-language pre-training frameworks such as CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance across a range of vision-language tasks. Recent studies have shown that aligning individual text tokens with specific image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Masaki Kawamura , Nakamasa Inoue , Rintaro Yanagi , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Rio Yokota

Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have become the de facto approach for discriminative vision-language representation learning. However, these models have limited language understanding, often exhibiting a "bag…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yassine Ouali , Adrian Bulat , Alexandros Xenos , Anestis Zaganidis , Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has attracted a surge of attention for its superior zero-shot performance and excellent transferability to downstream tasks. However, training such large-scale models usually requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Hongbo Liu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) provides a foundation model by integrating natural language into visual concepts, enabling zero-shot recognition on downstream tasks. It is usually expected that satisfactory overall accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Jie-Jing Shao , Jiang-Xin Shi , Xiao-Wen Yang , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

The preservation of aquatic biodiversity is critical in mitigating the effects of climate change. Aquatic scene understanding plays a pivotal role in aiding marine scientists in their decision-making processes. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Basit Alawode , Iyyakutti Iyappan Ganapathi , Sajid Javed , Naoufel Werghi , Mohammed Bennamoun , Arif Mahmood

Existing computer vision research in artwork struggles with artwork's fine-grained attributes recognition and lack of curated annotated datasets due to their costly creation. To the best of our knowledge, we are one of the first methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Marcos V. Conde , Kerem Turgutlu

Unpaired image-to-image translation aims to find a mapping between the source domain and the target domain. To alleviate the problem of the lack of supervised labels for the source images, cycle-consistency based methods have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Yupei Lin , Sen Zhang , Tianshui Chen , Yongyi Lu , Guangping Li , Yukai Shi

Understanding the vulnerability of large-scale pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP against adversarial attacks is key to ensuring zero-shot generalization capacity on various downstream tasks. State-of-the-art defense mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Fan Yang , Mingxuan Xia , Sangzhou Xia , Chicheng Ma , Hui Hui

Treating texts as images, combining prompts with textual labels for prompt tuning, and leveraging the alignment properties of CLIP have been successfully applied in zero-shot multi-label image recognition. Nonetheless, relying solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Haonan Xu , Dian Chao , Xiangyu Wu , Zhonghua Wan , Yang Yang

Vision-language (V+L) pretraining models have achieved great success in supporting multimedia applications by understanding the alignments between images and text. While existing vision-language pretraining models primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Manling Li , Ruochen Xu , Shuohang Wang , Luowei Zhou , Xudong Lin , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang

Recent advances in fine-tuning Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have witnessed the success of prompt tuning and adapter tuning, while the classic model fine-tuning on inherent parameters seems to be overlooked. It is believed that fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ming Li , Jike Zhong , Chenxin Li , Liuzhuozheng Li , Nie Lin , Masashi Sugiyama

The original CLIP text encoder is limited by a maximum input length of 77 tokens, which hampers its ability to effectively process long texts and perform fine-grained semantic understanding. In addition, the CLIP text encoder lacks support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiaoxing Hu , Kaicheng Yang , Ziyang Gong , Qi Ming , Zonghao Guo , Yu Tian , Xiang An , Ziyong Feng , Xue Yang

The scarcity of annotated data has sparked significant interest in unsupervised pre-training methods that leverage medical reports as auxiliary signals for medical visual representation learning. However, existing research overlooks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Zhe Li , Laurence T. Yang , Bocheng Ren , Xin Nie , Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li

CLIP achieves strong zero-shot image-text retrieval by aligning global vision and text representations, yet it falls behind on fine-grained tasks even when fine-tuned on long, detailed captions. In this work, we propose $\beta$-CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Fatimah Zohra , Chen Zhao , Hani Itani , Bernard Ghanem