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Recent advances in vision-language foundational models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated significant strides in zero-shot classification. However, the extensive parameterization of models like CLIP necessitates a resource-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Qijie Wang , Guandu Liu , Bin Wang

With its powerful visual-language alignment capability, CLIP performs well in zero-shot and few-shot learning tasks. However, we found in experiments that CLIP's logits suffer from serious inter-class confusion problems in downstream tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Shuo Li , Fang Liu , Zehua Hao , Xinyi Wang , Lingling Li , Xu Liu , Puhua Chen , Wenping Ma

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have yielded unprecedented performance for zero-shot image classification, yet their generalization capability may still be seriously challenged when confronted to domain shifts. In response, we…

Prompt learning has recently become a very efficient transfer learning paradigm for Contrastive Language Image Pretraining (CLIP) models. Compared with fine-tuning the entire encoder, prompt learning can obtain highly competitive results by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Guoyizhe Wei , Feng Wang , Anshul Shah , Rama Chellappa

Recent advancements in large-scale pre-training of visual-language models on paired image-text data have demonstrated impressive generalization capabilities for zero-shot tasks. Building on this success, efforts have been made to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Shahzad Ahmad , Sukalpa Chanda , Yogesh S Rawat

Fine-tuning pre-trained vision-language models, like CLIP, has yielded success on diverse downstream tasks. However, several pain points persist for this paradigm: (i) directly tuning entire pre-trained models becomes both time-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Chenyu You , Yifei Min , Weicheng Dai , Jasjeet S. Sekhon , Lawrence Staib , James S. Duncan

Recently, CLIP has found practical utility in the domain of pixel-level zero-shot segmentation tasks. The present landscape features two-stage methodologies beset by issues such as intricate pipelines and elevated computational costs. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wenhao Xu , Rongtao Xu , Changwei Wang , Shibiao Xu , Li Guo , Man Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang

Improving the safety of vision-language models like CLIP via fine-tuning often comes at a steep price, causing significant drops in their generalization performance. We find this trade-off stems from rigid alignment strategies that force…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Adeel Yousaf , Joseph Fioresi , James Beetham , Amrit Singh Bedi , Mubarak Shah

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is designed to train multiple correlated tasks simultaneously, thereby enhancing the performance of individual tasks. Typically, a multi-task network structure consists of a shared backbone and task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yi Xin , Junlong Du , Qiang Wang , Ke Yan , Shouhong Ding

With the growing interest in pretrained vision-language models like CLIP, recent research has focused on adapting these models to downstream tasks. Despite achieving promising results, most existing methods require labeled data for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Zhengbo Wang , Jian Liang , Ran He , Nan Xu , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Recently, large-scale pre-trained vision-language models (e.g. CLIP and ALIGN) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in acquiring transferable visual representations. To leverage the valuable knowledge encoded within these models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yi Zhang , Ce Zhang , Xueting Hu , Zhihai He

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) represents the latest incarnation of pre-trained vision-language models. Although CLIP has recently shown its superior power on a wide range of downstream vision-language tasks like Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sinuo Deng , Lifang Wu , Ge Shi , Lehao Xing , Meng Jian , Ye Xiang

Prompt tuning, which involves training a small set of parameters, effectively enhances the pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to downstream tasks. However, they often come at the cost of flexibility and adaptability when the tuned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Mushui Liu , Bozheng Li , Yunlong Yu

Image Aesthetics Assessment (IAA) is a challenging task due to its subjective nature and expensive manual annotations. Recent large-scale vision-language models, such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), have shown their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Liwu Xu , Jinjin Xu , Yuzhe Yang , Xilu Wang , Yijie Huang , Yaqian Li

Recent advancements in pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have enabled the task of open-vocabulary segmentation. CLIP demonstrates impressive zero-shot capabilities in various downstream tasks that require holistic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sule Bai , Yong Liu , Yifei Han , Haoji Zhang , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Most existing Vision-and-Language (V&L) models rely on pre-trained visual encoders, using a relatively small set of manually-annotated data (as compared to web-crawled data), to perceive the visual world. However, it has been observed that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Sheng Shen , Liunian Harold Li , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal , Anna Rohrbach , Kai-Wei Chang , Zhewei Yao , Kurt Keutzer

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

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated strong zero-shot performance across diverse downstream text-image tasks. Existing CLIP methods typically optimize a contrastive objective using negative samples drawn from each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Haotian Sun , Yitong Li , Yuchen Zhuang , Niao He , Hanjun Dai , Bo Dai

Masked image modeling (MIM) learns visual representation by masking and reconstructing image patches. Applying the reconstruction supervision on the CLIP representation has been proven effective for MIM. However, it is still under-explored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Xinyu Zhang , Jiahui Chen , Junkun Yuan , Qiang Chen , Jian Wang , Xiaodi Wang , Shumin Han , Xiaokang Chen , Jimin Pi , Kun Yao , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

CLIP is a discriminative model trained to align images and text in a shared embedding space. Due to its multimodal structure, it serves as the backbone of many generative pipelines, where a decoder is trained to map from the shared space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Antonio D'Orazio , Maria Rosaria Briglia , Donato Crisostomi , Dario Loi , Emanuele Rodolà , Iacopo Masi