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Existing foundation models (FMs) in the medical domain often require extensive fine-tuning or rely on training resource-intensive decoders, while many existing encoders are pretrained with objectives biased toward specific tasks. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tim Veenboer , George Yiasemis , Eric Marcus , Vivien Van Veldhuizen , Cees G. M. Snoek , Jonas Teuwen , Kevin B. W. Groot Lipman

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities and can quickly adapt to downstream tasks through prompt fine-tuning. Unfortunately, in classification tasks involving non-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Song-Lin Lv , Yu-Yang Chen , Zhi Zhou , Yu-Feng Li , Lan-Zhe Guo

Current vision-language foundation models, such as CLIP, have recently shown significant improvement in performance across various downstream tasks. However, whether such foundation models significantly improve more complex fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Mahmoud Ali , Di Yang , François Brémond

Although deep learning models have shown impressive performance on supervised learning tasks, they often struggle to generalize well when the training (source) and test (target) domains differ. Unsupervised domain adaptation (DA) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mainak Singha , Harsh Pal , Ankit Jha , Biplab Banerjee

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

CLIP has become a cornerstone of multimodal representation learning, yet improving its performance typically requires a prohibitively costly process of training from scratch on billions of samples. We ask a different question: Can we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Anant Mehta , Xiyuan Wei , Xingyu Chen , Tianbao Yang

Intermediate training of pre-trained transformer-based language models on domain-specific data leads to substantial gains for downstream tasks. To increase efficiency and prevent catastrophic forgetting alleviated from full domain-adaptive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Chia-Chien Hung , Lukas Lange , Jannik Strötgen

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) has attained great success in pattern recognition and computer vision. Transferring CLIP to downstream tasks (e.g. zero- or few-shot classification) is a hot topic in multimodal learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhipeng Ye , Feng Jiang , Qiufeng Wang , Kaizhu Huang , Jiaqi Huang

This study aims to address the problem of multi-domain task incremental learning~(MTIL), which requires that vision-language models~(VLMs) continuously acquire new knowledge while maintaining their inherent zero-shot recognition capability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Songlin Dong , Chenhao Ding , Jiangyang Li , Jizhou Han , Qiang Wang , Yuhang He , Yihong Gong

As a general-purpose vision-language pretraining model, CLIP demonstrates strong generalization ability in image-text alignment tasks and has been widely adopted in downstream applications such as image classification and image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kuanrong Liu , Siyuan Liang , Cheng Qian , Ming Zhang , Xiaochun Cao

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP offer promising solutions for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) but face challenges such as inefficient full fine-tuning, high complexity, and poor alignment between textual and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Ibtissam Saadi , Abdenour Hadid , Douglas W. Cunningham , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed , Yassin El Hillali

Class-incremental learning is a challenging problem, where the goal is to train a model that can classify data from an increasing number of classes over time. With the advancement of vision-language pre-trained models such as CLIP, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Linlan Huang , Xusheng Cao , Haori Lu , Xialei Liu

Despite the remarkable performance of vision language models (VLMs) such as Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP), the large size of these models is a considerable obstacle to their use in federated learning (FL) systems where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Christian Desrosiers , Tareef Daqqaq , Reem Kateb

Self-supervised contrastive learning models, such as CLIP, have set new benchmarks for vision-language models in many downstream tasks. However, their dependency on rigid one-to-one mappings overlooks the complex and often multifaceted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yiming Zhang , Zhuokai Zhao , Zhaorun Chen , Zhili Feng , Zenghui Ding , Yining Sun

Human-centric visual analysis plays a pivotal role in diverse applications, including surveillance, healthcare, and human-computer interaction. With the emergence of large-scale unlabeled human image datasets, there is an increasing need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingshuang Luo , Ruibing Hou , Bo Chao , Hong Chang , Zimo Liu , Yaowei Wang , Shiguang Shan

The ability to learn new concepts while preserve the learned knowledge is desirable for learning systems in Class-Incremental Learning (CIL). Recently, feature expansion of the model become a prevalent solution for CIL, where the old…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Bowen Zheng , Da-Wei Zhou , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan

Contrastive language image pre-training (CLIP) is an essential component of building modern vision-language foundation models. While CLIP demonstrates remarkable zero-shot performance on downstream tasks, the multi-modal feature spaces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Dewei Feng , Sekitoshi Kanai , Kazuki Adachi , Daiki Chijiwa

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has drawn increasing attention recently for its transferable visual representation learning. However, due to the semantic gap within datasets, CLIP's pre-trained image-text alignment becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Longtian Qiu , Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Ziyao Zeng , Zilu Guo , Yafeng Li , Guangnan Zhang

Continual learning requires models to integrate new classes or domains over time while preserving previously acquired knowledge. Within this paradigm, foundation models often achieve strong performance, but they still remain subject to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Murat Onur Yildirim , Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim , Joaquin Vanschoren