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We propose DiffCLIP, a novel vision-language model that extends the differential attention mechanism to CLIP architectures. Differential attention was originally developed for large language models to amplify relevant context while…

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Vision-Language models (VLMs) that use contrastive language-image pre-training have shown promising zero-shot classification performance. However, their performance on imbalanced dataset is relatively poor, where the distribution of classes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yidong Wang , Zhuohao Yu , Jindong Wang , Qiang Heng , Hao Chen , Wei Ye , Rui Xie , Xing Xie , Shikun Zhang

Visual Grounding (VG) is a crucial topic in the field of vision and language, which involves locating a specific region described by expressions within an image. To reduce the reliance on manually labeled data, unsupervised visual grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Fang Peng , Ming Yan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Current architectures for multi-modality tasks such as visual question answering suffer from their high complexity. As a result, these architectures are difficult to train and require high computational resources. To address these problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Fabian Deuser , Konrad Habel , Philipp J. Rösch , Norbert Oswald

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have showcased a remarkable ability to extract transferable features for downstream tasks. Nonetheless, the training process of these models is usually based on a coarse-grained contrastive loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Ali Abdollah , Amirmohammad Izadi , Armin Saghafian , Reza Vahidimajd , Mohammad Mozafari , Amirreza Mirzaei , Mohammadmahdi Samiei , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have shown impressive zero-shot and few-shot learning capabilities across diverse applications. However, adapting these models to new fine-grained domains remains difficult due to reliance on prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Taha Koleilat , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

Vision-language tasks, such as VQA, SNLI-VE, and VCR are challenging because they require the model's reasoning ability to understand the semantics of the visual world and natural language. Supervised methods working for vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zhecan Wang , Rui Sun , Haoxuan You , Noel Codella , Kai-Wei Chang , Shih-Fu Chang

This work introduces CAPIVARA, a cost-efficient framework designed to enhance the performance of multilingual CLIP models in low-resource languages. While CLIP has excelled in zero-shot vision-language tasks, the resource-intensive nature…

Until recently, the general corpus of CLIP-type fundamental models has widely explored either the retrieval of short descriptions or the classification of objects in the scene as SINGLE-object image classification task. The same holds for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Advik Sinha , Saurabh Atreya , Aashutosh A , Sk Aziz Ali , Abhijit Das

Image recognition has recently witnessed a paradigm shift, where vision-language models are now used to perform few-shot classification based on textual prompts. Among these, the CLIP model has shown remarkable capabilities for zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Alberto Baldrati , Francesco Todino , Federico Becattini , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) on large-scale image-caption datasets learns representations that can achieve remarkable zero-shot generalization. However, such models require a massive amount of pre-training data. Improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Siddharth Joshi , Arnav Jain , Ali Payani , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

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

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

Foundation models have recently gained tremendous popularity in medical image analysis. State-of-the-art methods leverage either paired image-text data via vision-language pre-training or unpaired image data via self-supervised pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lei Zhu , Jun Zhou , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu

Long-tailed multi-label visual recognition poses a significant challenge, as images typically contain multiple labels with highly imbalanced class distributions, leading to biased models that favor head classes while underperforming on tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wei Tang , Zuo-Zheng Wang , Kun Zhang , Tong Wei , Min-Ling Zhang

We explore the extent to which zero-shot vision-language models exhibit gender bias for different vision tasks. Vision models traditionally required task-specific labels for representing concepts, as well as finetuning; zero-shot models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Melissa Hall , Laura Gustafson , Aaron Adcock , Ishan Misra , Candace Ross

In this paper, we address the extraction of the fine-grained attributes of an instance as a `multi-attribute classification' problem. To this end, we propose an end-to-end architecture by adopting the bi-linear Convolutional Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Roshanak Zakizadeh , Michele Sasdelli , Yu Qian , Eduard Vazquez

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have exhibited impressive zero-shot performance and transferability, allowing them to adapt to downstream tasks in a data-efficient manner. However, when only a few labeled samples are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Ce Zhang , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie

The robustness of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP is critical for their deployment in safety-critical applications like autonomous driving, healthcare diagnostics, and security systems, where accurate interpretation of visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yuhan Liang , Yijun Li , Yumeng Niu , Qianhe Shen , Hangyu Liu

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