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Pre-trained vision models (PVMs) have demonstrated remarkable adaptability across a wide range of downstream vision tasks, showcasing exceptional performance. However, as these models scale to billions or even trillions of parameters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yi Xin , Jianjiang Yang , Siqi Luo , Yuntao Du , Qi Qin , Kangrui Cen , Yangfan He , Zhiwei Zhang , Bin Fu , Xiaokang Yang , Guangtao Zhai , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Xiaohong Liu

Training large models ranging from millions to billions of parameters is highly resource-intensive, requiring significant time, compute, and memory. It is observed that most of the learning (higher change in weights) takes place in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Krishu K Thapa , Reet Barik , Krishna Teja Chitty-Venkata , Murali Emani , Venkatram Vishwanath

Vision-language retrieval is an important multi-modal learning topic, where the goal is to retrieve the most relevant visual candidate for a given text query. Recently, pre-trained models, e.g., CLIP, show great potential on retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Haojun Jiang , Jianke Zhang , Rui Huang , Chunjiang Ge , Zanlin Ni , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Recent studies applied Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning techniques (PEFTs) to efficiently narrow the performance gap between pre-training and downstream. There are two important factors for various PEFTs, namely, the accessible data size and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yuxin Tian , Mouxing Yang , Yunfan Li , Dayiheng Liu , Xingzhang Ren , Xi Peng , Jiancheng Lv

Capitalizing on large pre-trained models for various downstream tasks of interest have recently emerged with promising performance. Due to the ever-growing model size, the standard full fine-tuning based task adaptation strategy becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Junting Pan , Ziyi Lin , Xiatian Zhu , Jing Shao , Hongsheng Li

Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning (PETL) aims at efficiently adapting large models pre-trained on massive data to downstream tasks with limited task-specific data. In view of the practicality of PETL, previous works focus on tuning a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Hengyuan Zhao , Hao Luo , Yuyang Zhao , Pichao Wang , Fan Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

Parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) has emerged as a flourishing research field for adapting large pre-trained models to downstream tasks, greatly reducing trainable parameters while grappling with memory challenges during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Haiwen Diao , Bo Wan , Xu Jia , Yunzhi Zhuge , Ying Zhang , Huchuan Lu , Long Chen

A common strategy for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) of pre-trained Vision Transformers (ViTs) involves adapting the model to downstream tasks by learning a low-rank adaptation matrix. This matrix is decomposed into a product of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Wei Dong , Yuan Sun , Yiting Yang , Xing Zhang , Zhijun Lin , Qingsen Yan , Haokui Zhang , Peng Wang , Yang Yang , Hengtao Shen

The massive amount of trainable parameters in the pre-trained language models (PLMs) makes them hard to be deployed to multiple downstream tasks. To address this issue, parameter-efficient transfer learning methods have been proposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yifan Chen , Devamanyu Hazarika , Mahdi Namazifar , Yang Liu , Di Jin , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Fine-tuning large-scale Transformers has led to the explosion of many AI applications across Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision tasks. However, fine-tuning all pre-trained model parameters becomes impractical as the model size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 John Nguyen , Sid Wang , Ke Li , Carole-Jean Wu

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has emerged to mitigate the computational demands of large-scale models. Within computer vision, adapter-based PEFT methods are often favored over prompt-based approaches like Visual Prompt Tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Lingyun Huang , Jianxu Mao , Junfei Yi , Ziming Tao , Yaonan Wang

In the arena of language model fine-tuning, the traditional approaches, such as Domain-Adaptive Pretraining (DAPT) and Task-Adaptive Pretraining (TAPT), although effective, but computational intensive. This research introduces a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Keyu Chen , Yuan Pang , Zi Yang

Capitalizing on image-level pre-trained models for various downstream tasks has recently emerged with promising performance. However, the paradigm of "image pre-training followed by video fine-tuning" for high-dimensional video data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shu Yang , Zhiyuan Cai , Luyang Luo , Ning Ma , Shuchang Xu , Hao Chen

This paper proposes a novel approach to address the challenge that pretrained VLA models often fail to effectively improve performance and reduce adaptation costs during standard supervised finetuning (SFT). Some advanced finetuning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wenxuan Song , Han Zhao , Fuhao Li , Ziyang Zhou , Xi Wang , Jing Lyu , Pengxiang Ding , Yan Wang , Donglin Wang , Haoang Li

Prior parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) algorithms reduce memory usage and computational costs of fine-tuning large neural network models by training only a few additional adapter parameters, rather than the entire model. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Sunghyeon Woo , Sol Namkung , Sunwoo Lee , Inho Jeong , Beomseok Kim , Dongsuk Jeon

Prompt tuning (PT) has long been recognized as an effective and efficient paradigm for transferring large pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) to downstream tasks by learning a tiny set of context vectors. Nevertheless, in this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Shihan Wu , Ji Zhang , Pengpeng Zeng , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Heng Tao Shen

The popularity of pre-trained large models has revolutionized downstream tasks across diverse fields, such as language, vision, and multi-modality. To minimize the adaption cost for downstream tasks, many Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yiwen Tang , Ray Zhang , Zoey Guo , Dong Wang , Zhigang Wang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

While current Vision Transformer (ViT) adapter methods have shown promising accuracy, their inference speed is implicitly hindered by inefficient memory access operations, e.g., standard normalization and frequent reshaping. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Dong Zhang , Rui Yan , Pingcheng Dong , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) is an effective tuning method for adapting pretrained Vision Transformers (ViTs) to downstream tasks. It leverages extra learnable tokens, known as prompts, which steer the frozen pretrained ViTs. Although VPT has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Seungryong Yoo , Eunji Kim , Dahuin Jung , Jungbeom Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Parameter-Efficient transfer learning with Adapters have been studied in Natural Language Processing (NLP) as an alternative to full fine-tuning. Adapters are memory-efficient and scale well with downstream tasks by training small…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Vaishali Pal , Carlos Lassance , Hervé Déjean , Stéphane Clinchant