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CLIP models perform remarkably well on zero-shot classification and retrieval tasks. But recent studies have shown that learnt representations in CLIP are not well suited for dense prediction tasks like object detection, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , Hadi Pouransari , Fartash Faghri , Oncel Tuzel

A promising approach for improving the performance of vision-language models like CLIP for image classification is to extend the class descriptions (i.e., prompts) with related attributes, e.g., using brown sparrow instead of sparrow.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Reza Esfandiarpoor , Stephen H. Bach

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown substantial capabilities in integrating visual and textual information, yet frequently rely on spurious correlations, undermining their robustness and generalization in complex multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zichen Wu , Hsiu-Yuan Huang , Yunfang Wu

We present a comprehensive experimental study on pretrained feature extractors for visual out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, focusing on adapting contrastive language-image pretrained (CLIP) models. Without fine-tuning on the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Nikolas Adaloglou , Felix Michels , Tim Kaiser , Markus Kollmann

Deep Learning (DL) is undergoing a paradigm shift with the emergence of foundation models. In this work, we focus on Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), a Vision-Language foundation model that achieves high accuracy across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Angelos Zavras , Dimitrios Michail , Begüm Demir , Ioannis Papoutsis

In recent literature, few-shot classification has predominantly been defined by the N-way k-shot meta-learning problem. Models designed for this purpose are usually trained to excel on standard benchmarks following a restricted setup,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Constance Ferragu , Philomene Chagniot , Vincent Coyette

Spurious correlations in real-world datasets cause machine learning models to rely on irrelevant patterns, undermining reliability, generalization, and fairness. Active learning offers a promising way to address this failure mode by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Kin Whye Chew , Jingxian Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) achieves strong generalization in vision-language tasks by aligning images and texts in a shared embedding space. However, recent findings show that CLIP-like models still underutilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Weiheng Zhao , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Xinggang Wang

Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP) has recently demonstrated success across various tasks due to superior feature representation empowered by image-text contrastive learning. However, the instance discrimination method used by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Xiang An , Kaicheng Yang , Xiangzi Dai , Ziyong Feng , Jiankang Deng

TIReID aims to retrieve the image corresponding to the given text query from a pool of candidate images. Existing methods employ prior knowledge from single-modality pre-training to facilitate learning, but lack multi-modal correspondences.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Shuanglin Yan , Neng Dong , Liyan Zhang , Jinhui Tang

Natural Language Inference (NLI) models frequently rely on spurious correlations rather than semantic reasoning. Existing mitigation strategies often incur high annotation costs or trigger catastrophic forgetting during fine-tuning. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Christopher Román Jaimes

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a cornerstone in multimodal intelligence. However, recent studies discovered that CLIP can only encode one aspect of the feature space, leading to substantial information loss and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jihai Zhang , Xiaoye Qu , Tong Zhu , Yu Cheng

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become the standard for cross-modal image-text representation learning. Improving CLIP typically requires additional data and retraining with new loss functions, but these demands raise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Haonan Wang , Minbin Huang , Runhui Huang , Lanqing Hong , Hang Xu , Tianyang Hu , Xiaodan Liang , Zhenguo Li , Hong Cheng , Kenji Kawaguchi

Neural networks are known to use spurious correlations such as background information for classification. While prior work has looked at spurious correlations that are widespread in the training data, in this work, we investigate how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yao-Yuan Yang , Chi-Ning Chou , Kamalika Chaudhuri

In prediction tasks, there exist features that are related to the label in the same way across different settings for that task; these are semantic features or semantics. Features with varying relationships to the label are nuisances. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Aahlad Puli , Nitish Joshi , Yoav Wald , He He , Rajesh Ranganath

In this paper, we introduce DetailCLIP: A Detail-Oriented CLIP to address the limitations of contrastive learning-based vision-language models, particularly CLIP, in handling detail-oriented and fine-grained tasks like segmentation. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Kishore Prakash Sailaja , Ali Alilooee , Ser-Nam Lim , Rajiv Ramnath

Foundation models like CLIP allow zero-shot transfer on various tasks without additional training data. Yet, the zero-shot performance is less competitive than a fully supervised one. Thus, to enhance the performance, fine-tuning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Beier Zhu , Kaihua Tang , Qianru Sun , Hanwang Zhang

Edge-based representations are fundamental cues for visual understanding, a principle rooted in early vision research and still central today. We extend this principle to vision-language alignment, showing that isolating and aligning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zanxi Ruan , Songqun Gao , Qiuyu Kong , Yiming Wang , Marco Cristani

We investigate whether three types of post hoc model explanations--feature attribution, concept activation, and training point ranking--are effective for detecting a model's reliance on spurious signals in the training data. Specifically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Julius Adebayo , Michael Muelly , Hal Abelson , Been Kim

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) has attracted increasing attention for model pre-training via unlabeled data. The resulted CSL models provide instance-discriminative visual features that are uniformly scattered in the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Yifan Zhang , Bryan Hooi , Dapeng Hu , Jian Liang , Jiashi Feng