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Large Language Model (LLM) alignment conventionally relies on supervised fine-tuning or reinforcement learning based alignment frameworks. These methods typically require labeled or preference datasets and involve updating model weights to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Reem I. Masoud , Martin Ferianc , Philip Treleaven , Miguel Rodrigues

Existing approaches to lifelong language learning rely on plenty of labeled data for learning a new task, which is hard to obtain in most real scenarios. Considering that humans can continually learn new tasks from a handful of examples, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Chengwei Qin , Shafiq Joty

Zero-shot multi-label recognition (MLR) with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) faces significant challenges without training data, model tuning, or architectural modifications. Existing approaches require prompt tuning or architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kevin Miller , Samarth Mishra , Aditya Gangrade , Kate Saenko , Venkatesh Saligrama

Vision-language supervision has made remarkable strides in learning visual representations from textual guidance. In digital pathology, vision-language models (VLM), pre-trained on curated datasets of histological image-captions, have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Pablo Meseguer , Rocío del Amor , Valery Naranjo

Large scale Vision-Language (VL) models have shown tremendous success in aligning representations between visual and text modalities. This enables remarkable progress in zero-shot recognition, image generation & editing, and many other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Wei Lin , Leonid Karlinsky , Nina Shvetsova , Horst Possegger , Mateusz Kozinski , Rameswar Panda , Rogerio Feris , Hilde Kuehne , Horst Bischof

Research to improve Automated Short Answer Grading has recently focused on Large Language Models (LLMs) with prompt engineering and no- or few-shot prompting to achieve best results. This is in contrast to the fine-tuning approach, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Joel Walsh , Siddarth Mamidanna , Benjamin Nye , Mark Core , Daniel Auerbach

Prompt learning has been designed as an alternative to fine-tuning for adapting Vision-language (V-L) models to the downstream tasks. Previous works mainly focus on text prompt while visual prompt works are limited for V-L models. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chen Xu , Yuhan Zhu , Haocheng Shen , Boheng Chen , Yixuan Liao , Xiaoxin Chen , Limin Wang

Recent advances in large language and vision-language models have enabled zero-shot inference, allowing models to solve new tasks without task-specific training. Various adaptation techniques such as prompt engineering, In-Context Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Artyom Gadetsky , Andrei Atanov , Yulun Jiang , Zhitong Gao , Ghazal Hosseini Mighan , Amir Zamir , Maria Brbic

Few-shot classification is a challenging problem that aims to learn a model that can adapt to unseen classes given a few labeled samples. Recent approaches pre-train a feature extractor, and then fine-tune for episodic meta-learning. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Philip Chikontwe , Soopil Kim , Sang Hyun Park

How to efficiently transform large language models (LLMs) into instruction followers is recently a popular research direction, while training LLM for multi-modal reasoning remains less explored. Although the recent LLaMA-Adapter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Peng Gao , Jiaming Han , Renrui Zhang , Ziyi Lin , Shijie Geng , Aojun Zhou , Wei Zhang , Pan Lu , Conghui He , Xiangyu Yue , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown groundbreaking capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks. However, these models remain vulnerable to adversarial jailbreak attacks, where adversaries craft subtle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jiwei Guan , Haibo Jin , Haohan Wang

To perform few-shot learning, language models extract signals from a few input-label pairs, aggregate these into a learned prediction rule, and apply this rule to new inputs. How is this implemented in the forward pass of modern transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xinyan Hu , Kayo Yin , Michael I. Jordan , Jacob Steinhardt , Lijie Chen

In this paper, we look at cross-domain few-shot classification which presents the challenging task of learning new classes in previously unseen domains with few labelled examples. Existing methods, though somewhat effective, encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Rashindrie Perera , Saman Halgamuge

Black-box prompt tuning employs derivative-free optimization algorithms to learn prompts within low-dimensional subspaces rather than back-propagating through the network of Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent studies reveal that black-box…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yuanhang Zheng , Zhixing Tan , Peng Li , Yang Liu

The rapid advancements in vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have intensified the need to address distribution shifts between training and testing datasets. Although prior Test-Time Training (TTT) techniques for VLMs have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yuto Kojima , Jiarui Xu , Xueyan Zou , Xiaolong Wang

Aligning features from different modalities, is one of the most fundamental challenges for cross-modal tasks. Although pre-trained vision-language models can achieve a general alignment between image and text, they often require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ziqi Jiang , Yanghao Wang , Long Chen

Few-shot classification aims to adapt to new tasks with limited labeled examples. To fully use the accessible data, recent methods explore suitable measures for the similarity between the query and support images and better high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Kaihui Cheng , Chule Yang , Xiao Liu , Naiyang Guan , Zhiyuan Wang

Current language models have been criticised for learning language from text alone without connection between words and their meaning. Consequently, multimodal training has been proposed as a way for creating models with better language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Lovisa Hagström , Richard Johansson

Pre-trained Vision-Language (V-L) models set the benchmark for generalization to downstream tasks among the noteworthy contenders. Many characteristics of the V-L model have been explored in existing research including the challenge of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Guiming Cao , Kaize Shi , Hong Fu , Huaiwen Zhang , Guandong Xu

Vision-Language multimodal Models (VLMs) offer the possibility for zero-shot classification in astronomy: i.e. classification via natural language prompts, with no training. We investigate two models, GPT-4o and LLaVA-NeXT, for zero-shot…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Dimitrios Tanoglidis , Bhuvnesh Jain