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Vision-language models such as CLIP have shown impressive capabilities in encoding texts and images into aligned embeddings, enabling the retrieval of multimodal data in a shared embedding space. However, these embedding-based models still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Timothy Ossowski , Ming Jiang , Junjie Hu

Medical images are often more difficult to acquire than natural images due to the specialism of the equipment and technology, which leads to less medical image datasets. So it is hard to train a strong pretrained medical vision model. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Haijiang Tian , Jingkun Yue , Xiaohong Liu , Guoxing Yang , Zeyu Jiang , Guangyu Wang

With the increasing attention to pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), \eg, CLIP, substantial efforts have been devoted to many downstream tasks, especially in test-time adaptation (TTA). However, previous works focus on learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xingyu Zhu , Shuo Wang , Beier Zhu , Miaoge Li , Yunfan Li , Junfeng Fang , Zhicai Wang , Dongsheng Wang , Hanwang Zhang

Multimodal Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a transformative topic at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, enabling machines to perceive and reason about the world through both visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zongxia Li , Xiyang Wu , Hongyang Du , Fuxiao Liu , Huy Nghiem , Guangyao Shi

Contrastive Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong zero-shot capabilities. However, their cross-modal alignment remains biased toward English due to limited multilingual multimodal data. Recent multilingual extensions have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Junwon You , Dasol Kang , Jae-Hun Jung

Recent CLIP-like Vision-Language Models (VLMs), pre-trained on large amounts of image-text pairs to align both modalities with a simple contrastive objective, have paved the way to open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. Given an arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Monika Wysoczańska , Antonin Vobecky , Amaia Cardiel , Tomasz Trzciński , Renaud Marlet , Andrei Bursuc , Oriane Siméoni

Multimodal learning plays a critical role in e-commerce recommendation platforms today, enabling accurate recommendations and product understanding. However, existing vision-language models, such as CLIP, face key challenges in e-commerce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ramin Giahi , Kehui Yao , Sriram Kollipara , Kai Zhao , Vahid Mirjalili , Jianpeng Xu , Topojoy Biswas , Evren Korpeoglu , Kannan Achan

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

In this paper, we explore the potential of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), specifically CLIP, in predicting visual object relationships, which involves interpreting visual features from images into language-based relations. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Rakshith Subramanyam , T. S. Jayram , Rushil Anirudh , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have played an increasing role in multimedia research. In terms of vision-language (VL) tasks, they often serve as a language encoder and still require an additional fusion network for VL reasoning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Shubin Huang , Qiong Wu , Yiyi Zhou , Weijie Chen , Rongsheng Zhang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Probabilistic embeddings have proven useful for capturing polysemous word meanings, as well as ambiguity in image matching. In this paper, we study the advantages of probabilistic embeddings in a cross-modal setting (i.e., text and images),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Leila Pishdad , Ran Zhang , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Allan Jepson , Afsaneh Fazly

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding and generating content across various modalities, such as images and text. However, their interpretability remains a challenge, hindering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Loris Giulivi , Giacomo Boracchi

Vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in image classification by training with large-scale paired image-text data. Their performances largely depend on the prompt quality. While recent methods show that visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xiangyan Qu , Gaopeng Gou , Jiamin Zhuang , Jing Yu , Kun Song , Qihao Wang , Yili Li , Gang Xiong

Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have become the de facto approach for discriminative vision-language representation learning. However, these models have limited language understanding, often exhibiting a "bag…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yassine Ouali , Adrian Bulat , Alexandros Xenos , Anestis Zaganidis , Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

CLIP has shown impressive results in aligning images and texts at scale. However, its ability to capture detailed visual features remains limited because CLIP matches images and texts at a global level. To address this issue, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Rui Xiao , Sanghwan Kim , Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Zeynep Akata , Stephan Alaniz

Large Language Model-based Vision-Language Models (LLM-based VLMs) have demonstrated impressive results in various vision-language understanding tasks. However, how well these VLMs can see image detail beyond the semantic level remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Chenhui Gou , Abdulwahab Felemban , Faizan Farooq Khan , Deyao Zhu , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Autoregressive language models decode left-to-right with irreversible commitments, limiting revision during multi-step reasoning. We propose \textbf{VDLM}, a modular variable diffusion language model that separates semantic planning from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Shuhui Qu

Large pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) offer a promising approach to leveraging human language for enhancing downstream tasks. However, VLMs such as CLIP face significant limitation: its performance is highly sensitive to prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Ao Li , Zongfang Liu , Xinhua Li , Jinghui Zhang , Pengwei Wang , Hu Wang

Dual-encoder Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP are often characterized as bag-of-words systems due to their poor performance on compositional benchmarks. We argue that this limitation may stem less from deficient representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Imanol Miranda , Ander Salaberria , Eneko Agirre , Gorka Azkune

In the current literature, most embedding models are based on the encoder-only transformer architecture to extract a dense and meaningful representation of the given input, which can be a text, an image, and more. With the recent advances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Elio Musacchio , Lucia Siciliani , Pierpaolo Basile , Giovanni Semeraro