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The popularity of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has propelled its application to diverse downstream vision tasks. To improve its capacity on downstream tasks, few-shot learning has become a widely-adopted technique.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Xiangyang Zhu , Renrui Zhang , Bowei He , Aojun Zhou , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao , Peng Gao

The CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) model and its variants are becoming the de facto backbone in many applications. However, training a CLIP model from hundreds of millions of image-text pairs can be prohibitively expensive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Liangliang Cao , Bowen Zhang , Chen Chen , Yinfei Yang , Xianzhi Du , Wencong Zhang , Zhiyun Lu , Yantao Zheng

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a foundation model and has been applied to various vision and multimodal tasks. However, recent works indicate that CLIP falls short in distinguishing detailed differences in images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yinqi Li , Jiahe Zhao , Hong Chang , Ruibing Hou , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

This study aims to explore efficient tuning methods for the screenshot captioning task. Recently, image captioning has seen significant advancements, but research in captioning tasks for mobile screens remains relatively scarce. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ching-Yu Chiang , I-Hua Chang , Shih-Wei Liao

Vision language models have played a key role in extracting meaningful features for various robotic applications. Among these, Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) is widely used in robotic tasks that require both vision and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Nghia Nguyen , Minh Nhat Vu , Tung D. Ta , Baoru Huang , Thieu Vo , Ngan Le , Anh Nguyen

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

Medical vision-language alignment through cross-modal contrastive learning shows promising performance in image-text matching tasks, such as retrieval and zero-shot classification. However, conventional cross-modal contrastive learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Chenyu Lian , Hong-Yu Zhou , Dongyun Liang , Jing Qin , Liansheng Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a promising language-supervised visual pre-training framework. This paper aims to distill small CLIP models supervised by a large teacher CLIP model. We propose several distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Junyu Bi , Xinqiang Yu , Han Yang , Boyu Diao , Yongjun Xu

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

Large-scale multi-modal training with image-text pairs imparts strong generalization to CLIP model. Since training on a similar scale for videos is infeasible, recent approaches focus on the effective transfer of image-based CLIP to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hanoona Rasheed , Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Muhammad Maaz , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

There are a thousand ways to caption an image. Contrastive Language Pretraining (CLIP) on the other hand, works by mapping an image and its caption to a single vector -- limiting how well CLIP-like models can represent the diverse ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Samuel Lavoie , Polina Kirichenko , Mark Ibrahim , Mahmoud Assran , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Aaron Courville , Nicolas Ballas

Prompt learning has recently become a very efficient transfer learning paradigm for Contrastive Language Image Pretraining (CLIP) models. Compared with fine-tuning the entire encoder, prompt learning can obtain highly competitive results by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Guoyizhe Wei , Feng Wang , Anshul Shah , Rama Chellappa

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

We introduce SuperClass, a super simple classification method for vision-language pre-training on image-text data. Unlike its contrastive counterpart CLIP who contrast with a text encoder, SuperClass directly utilizes tokenized raw text as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Zilong Huang , Qinghao Ye , Bingyi Kang , Jiashi Feng , Haoqi Fan

Spatial understanding remains a key challenge in vision-language models. Yet it is still unclear whether such understanding is truly acquired, and if so, through what mechanisms. We present a controllable 1D image-text testbed to probe how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Takaki Yamamoto , Chihiro Noguchi , Toshihiro Tanizawa

Vision-language contrastive learning frameworks such as CLIP enable learning representations from natural language supervision and provide strong zero-shot classification capabilities. However, due to the nature of the supervisory signal in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mohammed Baharoon , Jonathan Klein , Dominik L. Michels

Street-view image attribute classification is a vital downstream task of image classification, enabling applications such as autonomous driving, urban analytics, and high-definition map construction. It remains computationally demanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Qi You , Yitai Cheng , Zichao Zeng , James Haworth

Existing studies of training state-of-the-art Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) models on large-scale data involve hundreds of or even thousands of GPUs due to the requirement of a large batch size. However, such a large amount…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Xiyuan Wei , Fanjiang Ye , Ori Yonay , Xingyu Chen , Baixi Sun , Dingwen Tao , Tianbao Yang

Open-vocabulary audio language models (ALMs), like Contrastive Language Audio Pretraining (CLAP), represent a promising new paradigm for audio-text retrieval using natural language queries. In this paper, for the first time, we perform…

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Renrui Zhang , Zhang Wei , Rongyao Fang , Peng Gao , Kunchang Li , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao , Hongsheng Li