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Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) stands out as a prominent method for image representation learning. Various neural architectures, spanning Transformer-based models like Vision Transformers (ViTs) to Convolutional Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Hamed Damirchi , Ignacio M. Jara , Felipe Bravo-Marquez , Anton van den Hengel

Recent work has shown that self-supervised pre-training leads to improvements over supervised learning on challenging visual recognition tasks. CLIP, an exciting new approach to learning with language supervision, demonstrates promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Norman Mu , Alexander Kirillov , David Wagner , Saining Xie

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) is a very recent multi-modal model that jointly learns representations of images and texts. The model is trained on a massive amount of English data and shows impressive performance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Federico Bianchi , Giuseppe Attanasio , Raphael Pisoni , Silvia Terragni , Gabriele Sarti , Sri Lakshmi

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

Many vision-language models (VLMs) that prove very effective at a range of multimodal task, build on CLIP-based vision encoders, which are known to have various limitations. We investigate the hypothesis that the strong language backbone in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sho Takishita , Jay Gala , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Kentaro Inui , Yova Kementchedjhieva

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

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated strong generalization for vision-language tasks in computer vision and medical domains, yet its text encoder accepts only up to 77 tokens, which limits its ability to represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiaoyang Wei , Camille Kurtz , Florence Cloppet

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

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) has become a popular choice for various downstream tasks. However, recent studies have questioned its ability to represent compositional concepts effectively. These works suggest that CLIP often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Darina Koishigarina , Arnas Uselis , Seong Joon Oh

We propose Context-Adaptive Multi-Prompt Embedding, a novel approach to enrich semantic representations in vision-language contrastive learning. Unlike standard CLIP-style models that rely on a single text embedding, our method introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Dahun Kim , Anelia Angelova

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated strong generalization across a wide range of visual tasks by leveraging large-scale English-image pairs. However, its extension to low-resource languages remains limited due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Dahyun Chung , Donghyun Shin , Yujin Sung , Seunggi Moon , Jinwoo Jeon , Byung-Jun Lee

Contrastive learning has emerged as a transformative method for learning effective visual representations through the alignment of image and text embeddings. However, pairwise similarity computation in contrastive loss between image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Sachin Mehta , Maxwell Horton , Fartash Faghri , Mohammad Hossein Sekhavat , Mahyar Najibi , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Oncel Tuzel , Mohammad Rastegari

Contrastive Language--Image Pre-training (CLIP) has shown remarkable success in learning with cross-modal supervision from extensive amounts of image--text pairs collected online. Thus far, the effectiveness of CLIP has been investigated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Sedigheh Eslami , Gerard de Melo , Christoph Meinel

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) has shown remarkable zero-shot transfer capabilities in cross-modal correlation tasks such as visual classification and image retrieval. However, its performance in cross-modal generation tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Junyang Wang , Yi Zhang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Jitao Sang

While vision-language pre-trained models (VL-PTMs) have advanced multimodal research in recent years, their mastery in a few languages like English restricts their applicability in broader communities. To this end, there is an increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Bang Yang , Yong Dai , Xuxin Cheng , Yaowei Li , Asif Raza , Yuexian Zou

Cross-lingual word embeddings are vector representations of words in different languages where words with similar meaning are represented by similar vectors, regardless of the language. Recent developments which construct these embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Yerai Doval , Jose Camacho-Collados , Luis Espinosa-Anke , Steven Schockaert

Learning semantically meaningful sentence embeddings is an open problem in natural language processing. In this work, we propose a sentence embedding learning approach that exploits both visual and textual information via a multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Miaoran Zhang , Marius Mosbach , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Michael A. Hedderich , Dietrich Klakow

The application of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) in Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) research powerful cross-modal semantic understanding capabilities. Existing methods attempt to optimize input text prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhongxing Xu , Feilong Tang , Zhe Chen , Yingxue Su , Zhiyi Zhao , Ge Zhang , Jionglong Su , Zongyuan Ge

Unsupervised representation learning algorithms such as word2vec and ELMo improve the accuracy of many supervised NLP models, mainly because they can take advantage of large amounts of unlabeled text. However, the supervised models only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Kevin Clark , Minh-Thang Luong , Christopher D. Manning , Quoc V. Le

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) framework has become a widely used approach for multimodal representation learning, particularly in image-text retrieval and clustering. However, its efficacy is constrained by three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Ziyong Feng , Xingjun Wang , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Yingda Chen , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng