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Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has been widely used in vision tasks. Notably, CLIP has demonstrated promising performance in few-shot learning (FSL). However, existing CLIP-based methods in training-free FSL (i.e., without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yayuan Li , Jintao Guo , Lei Qi , Wenbin Li , Yinghuan Shi

Pretrained models like CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot classification capabilities across diverse visual domains, spanning natural images, artistic renderings, and abstract representations. However, real-world applications often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ashish Mishra , Gyanaranjan Nayak , Tarun Kumar , Arpit Shah , Suparna Bhattacharya , Martin Foltin

Supervised visual captioning models typically require a large scale of images or videos paired with descriptions in a specific language (i.e., the vision-caption pairs) for training. However, collecting and labeling large-scale datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Bang Yang , Fenglin Liu , Xian Wu , Yaowei Wang , Xu Sun , Yuexian Zou

The evolution of prompt learning methodologies has driven exploration of deeper prompt designs to enhance model performance. However, current deep text prompting approaches suffer from two critical limitations: Over-reliance on constrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Qiqi Zhan , Shiwei Li , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

We propose a novel unsupervised backlit image enhancement method, abbreviated as CLIP-LIT, by exploring the potential of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) for pixel-level image enhancement. We show that the open-world CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Zhexin Liang , Chongyi Li , Shangchen Zhou , Ruicheng Feng , Chen Change Loy

Vision-Language Models like CLIP create aligned embedding spaces for text and images, making it possible for anyone to build a visual classifier by simply naming the classes they want to distinguish. However, a model that works well in one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kevin Robbins , Xiaotong Liu , Yu Wu , Le Sun , Grady McPeak , Abby Stylianou , Robert Pless

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate strong zero-shot generalization, but their performance significantly degrades in cross-domain scenarios with scarce target-domain training data (Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning, CDFSL).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shuai Yi , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Recently, research on Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs) has gained significant attention due to the prevalence of free-text node features in real-world applications and the advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) that bolster TAG…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yun Zhu , Haizhou Shi , Xiaotang Wang , Yongchao Liu , Yaoke Wang , Boci Peng , Chuntao Hong , Siliang Tang

Vision-Language models like CLIP have been widely adopted for various tasks due to their impressive zero-shot capabilities. However, CLIP is not suitable for extracting 3D geometric features as it was trained on only images and text by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Deepti Hegde , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) stands as one of the most effective and scalable methods for training transferable vision models using paired image and text data. CLIP models are trained using contrastive loss, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lijie Fan , Dilip Krishnan , Phillip Isola , Dina Katabi , Yonglong Tian

CLIP has revolutionized zero-shot learning by enabling task generalization without fine-tuning. While prompting techniques like CoOp and CoCoOp enhance CLIP's adaptability, their effectiveness in Federated Learning (FL) remains an open…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Alessio Masano , Matteo Pennisi , Federica Proietto Salanitri , Concetto Spampinato , Giovanni Bellitto

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) efficiently learns visual concepts by pre-training with natural language supervision. CLIP and its visual encoder have been explored on various vision and language tasks and achieve strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 An Yan , Jiacheng Li , Wanrong Zhu , Yujie Lu , William Yang Wang , Julian McAuley

Zero-shot action recognition relies on transferring knowledge from vision-language models to unseen actions using semantic descriptions. While recent methods focus on temporal modeling or architectural adaptations to handle video data, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Salman Iqbal , Waheed Rehman

CLIP models learn transferable multi-modal features via image-text contrastive learning on internet-scale data. They are widely used in zero-shot classification, multi-modal retrieval, text-to-image diffusion, and as image encoders in large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Marc-Antoine Lavoie , Anas Mahmoud , Aldo Zaimi , Arsene Fansi Tchango , Steven L. Waslander

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 Pretraining (CLIP) is a popular foundation model, supporting from zero-shot classification, retrieval to encoders for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Although CLIP is successfully trained on…

Prompt learning is an effective method to customize Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for various downstream tasks, involving tuning very few parameters of input prompt tokens. Recently, prompt pretraining in large-scale dataset (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhenyuan Chen , Lingfeng Yang , Shuo Chen , Zhaowei Chen , Jiajun Liang , Xiang Li

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) enables zero-shot inference in downstream tasks such as image-text retrieval and classification. However, recent works extending CLIP suffer from the issue of modality gap, which arises when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Na Min An , Eunki Kim , James Thorne , Hyunjung Shim

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have significantly advanced zero-shot image recognition. However, their performance remains limited by suboptimal prompt engineering and poor adaptability to target classes. While recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hui Liu , Kecheng Chen , Jialiang Wang , Xianming Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) model excels in few-shot learning by aligning visual and textual representations. Our study shows that template-sample similarity (TSS), defined as the resemblance between a text template…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zhenyu Zhang , Guangyao Chen , Yixiong Zou , Zhimeng Huang , Yuhua Li