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Continual learning (CL) can help pre-trained vision-language models efficiently adapt to new or under-trained data distributions without re-training. Nevertheless, during the continual training of the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Zangwei Zheng , Mingyuan Ma , Kai Wang , Ziheng Qin , Xiangyu Yue , Yang You

Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) is pre-trained to associate audio features with human language, making it a natural zero-shot classifier to recognize unseen sound categories. To adapt CLAP to downstream tasks, prior works…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Yiming Li , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu

With the advent of large-scale pre-trained models, interest in adapting and exploiting them for continual learning scenarios has grown. In this paper, we propose an approach to exploiting pre-trained vision-language models (e.g. CLIP) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xialei Liu , Xusheng Cao , Haori Lu , Jia-wen Xiao , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Ming-Ming Cheng

Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) seeks to adapt a source model, which is pre-trained on a supervised source domain, for a target domain, with only access to unlabeled target training data. Relying on pseudo labeling and/or auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Song Tang , Yunxiang Bai , Wenxin Su , Mao Ye , Jianwei Zhang , Xiatian Zhu

This paper presents a CLIP-based unsupervised learning method for annotation-free multi-label image classification, including three stages: initialization, training, and inference. At the initialization stage, we take full advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Rabab Abdelfattah , Qing Guo , Xiaoguang Li , Xiaofeng Wang , Song Wang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by leveraging semantic information from seen classes, but most existing methods assume accurate class labels for training instances. However, in real-world scenarios, noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jinfu Fan , Jiangnan Li , Xiaowen Yan , Xiaohui Zhong , Wenpeng Lu , Linqing Huang

Open-set Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation (OUVDA) deals with the task of adapting an action recognition model from a labelled source domain to an unlabelled target domain that contains "target-private" categories, which are present in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Giacomo Zara , Subhankar Roy , Paolo Rota , Elisa Ricci

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

Multimodal pre-trained models, such as CLIP, are popular for zero-shot classification due to their open-vocabulary flexibility and high performance. However, vision-language models, which compute similarity scores between images and class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mia Chiquier , Utkarsh Mall , Carl Vondrick

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been the cornerstone for zero-shot classification, text-image retrieval, and text-image generation by aligning image and text modalities. Despite its widespread adoption, a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Beichen Zhang , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuhang Zang , Jiaqi Wang

In this paper, we demonstrate that CLIP can also be adapted to downstream tasks where its vision-language alignment is suboptimally learned during pre-training on web-crawled data, all without requiring fine-tuning. We explore the case of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Sohee Kim , Jisu Kang , Dunam Kim , Seokju Lee

Recent advances in contrastive representation learning over paired image-text data have led to models such as CLIP that achieve state-of-the-art performance for zero-shot classification and distributional robustness. Such models typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Shashank Goel , Hritik Bansal , Sumit Bhatia , Ryan A. Rossi , Vishwa Vinay , Aditya Grover

Vision-language models such as CLIP learn a generic text-image embedding from large-scale training data. A vision-language model can be adapted to a new classification task through few-shot prompt tuning. We find that such a prompt tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Cheng-En Wu , Yu Tian , Haichao Yu , Heng Wang , Pedro Morgado , Yu Hen Hu , Linjie Yang

Training a text-to-image generator in the general domain (e.g., Dall.e, CogView) requires huge amounts of paired text-image data, which is too expensive to collect. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised scheme named as CLIP-GEN for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zihao Wang , Wei Liu , Qian He , Xinglong Wu , Zili Yi

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong performance in zero-shot image classification tasks. However, existing methods, including Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), all rely on annotated text-to-image pairs for aligning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Dianxing Shi , Dingjie Fu , Yuqiao Liu , Jun Wang

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) Model is a recently proposed large-scale pre-train model which attracts increasing attention in the computer vision community. Benefiting from its gigantic image-text training set, the CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yuxuan Ding , Lingqiao Liu , Chunna Tian , Jingyuan Yang , Haoxuan Ding

Large-scale multi-modal training with image-text pairs imparts strong generalization to CLIP model. Since training on a similar scale for videos is infeasible, recent approaches focus on the effective transfer of image-based CLIP to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hanoona Rasheed , Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Muhammad Maaz , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP exhibit strong zero-shot generalization, but adapting them to downstream tasks typically requires costly labeled data. Existing unsupervised self-training methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Qian-Wei Wang , Guanghao Meng , Ren Cai , Yaguang Song , Shu-Tao Xia

Large-scale Vision-Language Foundation Models (VLFMs), such as CLIP, now underpin a wide range of computer vision research and applications. VLFMs are often adapted to various domain-specific tasks. However, VLFM performance on novel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chris Vorster , Mayug Maniparambil , Noel E. O'Connor , Noel Murphy , Derek Molloy

Recent multimodal models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have shown remarkable ability to align visual and linguistic representations. However, domains where small visual differences carry large semantic significance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hiroshi Sasaki