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Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) is a powerful vision-language model that has shown great benefits for various tasks. However, we have identified some issues with its explainability, which undermine its credibility and limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Yi Li , Hualiang Wang , Yiqun Duan , Jiheng Zhang , Xiaomeng Li

Finetuning image-text models such as CLIP achieves state-of-the-art accuracies on a variety of benchmarks. However, recent works like WiseFT (Wortsman et al., 2021) and LP-FT (Kumar et al., 2022) have shown that even subtle differences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Sachin Goyal , Ananya Kumar , Sankalp Garg , Zico Kolter , Aditi Raghunathan

Semi-supervised learning methods can train high-accuracy machine learning models with a fraction of the labeled training samples required for traditional supervised learning. Such methods do not typically involve close review of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Marissa Connor , Vincent Emanuele

Visual language models like Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) have shown impressive performance in analyzing natural images with language information. However, these models often encounter challenges when applied to specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jiaqing Zhang , Mingxiang Cao , Xue Yang , Kai Jiang , Yunsong Li

Learning generalized representations from limited training samples is crucial for applying deep neural networks in low-resource scenarios. Recently, methods based on Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have exhibited promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yao Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Wei Wang , Xiaofeng Mao , Xiu Yan , Yue Wang , Zhigang Li , Wang lu , Jindong Wang , Xiangyang Ji

Data poisoning attacks are a potential threat to machine learning (ML) models, aiming to manipulate training datasets to disrupt their performance. Existing defenses are mostly designed to mitigate specific poisoning attacks or are aligned…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Anum Paracha , Junaid Arshad , Mohamed Ben Farah , Khalid Ismail

The surge in multimodal AI's success has sparked concerns over data privacy in vision-and-language tasks. While CLIP has revolutionized multimodal learning through joint training on images and text, its potential to unintentionally disclose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Alyssa Huang , Peihan Liu , Ryumei Nakada , Linjun Zhang , Wanrong Zhang

As a pioneering vision-language model, CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) has achieved significant success across various domains and a wide range of downstream vision-language tasks. However, the text encoders in popular CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Mothilal Asokan , Kebin Wu , Fatima Albreiki

Despite the recent success of image-text contrastive models like CLIP and SigLIP, these models often struggle with vision-centric tasks that demand high-fidelity image understanding, such as counting, depth estimation, and fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zineng Tang , Long Lian , Seun Eisape , XuDong Wang , Roei Herzig , Adam Yala , Alane Suhr , Trevor Darrell , David M. Chan

We present Fast Language-Image Pre-training (FLIP), a simple and more efficient method for training CLIP. Our method randomly masks out and removes a large portion of image patches during training. Masking allows us to learn from more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Yanghao Li , Haoqi Fan , Ronghang Hu , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Kaiming He

This paper proposes Comprehensive Pathology Language Image Pre-training (CPLIP), a new unsupervised technique designed to enhance the alignment of images and text in histopathology for tasks such as classification and segmentation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sajid Javed , Arif Mahmood , Iyyakutti Iyappan Ganapathi , Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Naoufel Werghi , Mohammed Bennamoun

Self-supervised models trained with a contrastive loss such as CLIP have shown to be very powerful in zero-shot classification settings. However, to be used as a zero-shot classifier these models require the user to provide new captions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Bhawesh Kumar , Anil Palepu , Rudraksh Tuwani , Andrew Beam

Vision-language models, like CLIP (Contrastive Language Image Pretraining), are becoming increasingly popular for a wide range of multimodal retrieval tasks. However, prior work has shown that large language and deep vision models can learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kimia Hamidieh , Haoran Zhang , Walter Gerych , Thomas Hartvigsen , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Contrastive vision-language pre-training frameworks such as CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance across a range of vision-language tasks. Recent studies have shown that aligning individual text tokens with specific image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Masaki Kawamura , Nakamasa Inoue , Rintaro Yanagi , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Rio Yokota

This paper tackles the challenge of detecting partially manipulated facial deepfakes, which involve subtle alterations to specific facial features while retaining the overall context, posing a greater detection difficulty than fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Andrii Yermakov , Jan Cech , Jiri Matas

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) or presentation attack detection is an essential component of face recognition systems deployed in security-critical applications. Existing FAS methods have poor generalizability to unseen spoof types, camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Koushik Srivatsan , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar

The success of large-scale contrastive vision-language pretraining (CLIP) has benefited both visual recognition and multimodal content understanding. The concise design brings CLIP the advantage in inference efficiency against other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shijie Geng , Jianbo Yuan , Yu Tian , Yuxiao Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

Traditional computer vision models are trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories. Recently, natural language has been shown to be a broader and richer source of supervision that provides finer descriptions to visual concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ruizhe Cheng , Bichen Wu , Peizhao Zhang , Peter Vajda , Joseph E. Gonzalez

Recent studies have shown that CLIP model's adversarial robustness in zero-shot classification tasks can be enhanced by adversarially fine-tuning its image encoder with adversarial examples (AEs), which are generated by minimizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jiacheng Zhang , Jinhao Li , Hanxun Huang , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Feng Liu

Recent studies on backdoor attacks in model training have shown that polluting a small portion of training data is sufficient to produce incorrect manipulated predictions on poisoned test-time data while maintaining high clean accuracy in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Soumyadeep Pal , Ren Wang , Yuguang Yao , Sijia Liu