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Transfer learning is a machine learning technique that uses previously acquired knowledge from a source domain to enhance learning in a target domain by reusing learned weights. This technique is ubiquitous because of its great advantages…

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The massive scale of Wireless Foundation Models (FMs) hinders their real-time deployment on edge devices. This letter moves beyond standard knowledge distillation by introducing a novel Multi-Component Adaptive Knowledge Distillation…

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The landscape of video recognition has evolved significantly, shifting from traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to Transformer-based architectures for improved accuracy. While 3D CNNs have been effective at capturing…

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The groundbreaking performance of transformers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks has led to their replacement of traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), owing to the efficiency and accuracy achieved through the…

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Deep learning-based vision is characterized by intricate frameworks that often necessitate a profound understanding, presenting a barrier to newcomers and limiting broad adoption. With many researchers grappling with the constraints of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Fabi Prezja

In self-supervised learning, one trains a model to solve a so-called pretext task on a dataset without the need for human annotation. The main objective, however, is to transfer this model to a target domain and task. Currently, the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Mehdi Noroozi , Ananth Vinjimoor , Paolo Favaro , Hamed Pirsiavash

The field of computational pathology has recently seen rapid advances driven by the development of modern vision foundation models (FMs), typically trained on vast collections of pathology images. Recent studies demonstrate that increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mikhail Karasikov , Joost van Doorn , Nicolas Känzig , Melis Erdal Cesur , Hugo Mark Horlings , Robert Berke , Fei Tang , Sebastian Otálora

Training large transformer models from scratch for a target task requires lots of data and is computationally demanding. The usual practice of transfer learning overcomes this challenge by initializing the model with weights of a pretrained…

Diffusion models (DMs) have become the new trend of generative models and have demonstrated a powerful ability of conditional synthesis. Among those, text-to-image diffusion models pre-trained on large-scale image-text pairs are highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Wenliang Zhao , Yongming Rao , Zuyan Liu , Benlin Liu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

While deeper and wider neural networks are actively pushing the performance limits of various computer vision and machine learning tasks, they often require large sets of labeled data for effective training and suffer from extremely high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Zhi Zhang , Guanghan Ning , Zhihai He

Can a small amount of verified goal information steer the expensive self-supervised pretraining of foundation models? Standard pretraining optimizes a fixed proxy objective (e.g., next-token prediction), which can misallocate compute away…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shuqi Ke , Giulia Fanti

Diffusion models enable high-quality virtual try-on (VTO) with their established image synthesis abilities. Despite the extensive end-to-end training of large pre-trained models involved in current VTO methods, real-world applications often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xingzi Xu , Qi Li , Shuwen Qiu , Julien Han , Karim Bouyarmane

Large-scale contrastive pre-training produces powerful Vision-and-Language Models (VLMs) capable of generating representations (embeddings) effective for a wide variety of visual and multimodal tasks. However, these pretrained embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Nikolaos-Antonios Ypsilantis , Kaifeng Chen , André Araujo , Ondřej Chum

Being trained on large and vast datasets, visual foundation models (VFMs) can be fine-tuned for diverse downstream tasks, achieving remarkable performance and efficiency in various computer vision applications. The high computation cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Anna Chistyakova , Mikhail Pautov

Large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs) encode rich multimodal semantics that are highly beneficial for fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC). However, their prohibitive computational cost hinders practical deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhengxu He , Jun Li , Zhijian Wu

Rapid development of large-scale pre-training has resulted in foundation models that can act as effective feature extractors on a variety of downstream tasks and domains. Motivated by this, we study the efficacy of pre-trained vision models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Oleksiy Ostapenko , Timothee Lesort , Pau Rodríguez , Md Rifat Arefin , Arthur Douillard , Irina Rish , Laurent Charlin

Pre-trained foundation models, due to their enormous capacity and exposure to vast amounts of data during pre-training, are known to have learned plenty of real-world concepts. An important step in making these pre-trained models effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jishnu Mukhoti , Yarin Gal , Philip H. S. Torr , Puneet K. Dokania

Vision Foundation Models(VFMs) have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks. However, their application to semantic segmentation is hindered by two significant challenges: (1) the disparity in data scale, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhixiang Wei , Xiaoxiao Ma , Ruishen Yan , Tao Tu , Huaian Chen , Jinjin Zheng , Yi Jin , Enhong Chen

Convolutional neural networks require numerous data for training. Considering the difficulties in data collection and labeling in some specific tasks, existing approaches generally use models pre-trained on a large source domain (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Zhichen Zhao , Bowen Zhang , Yuning Jiang , Li Xu , Lei Li , Wei-Ying Ma

Advances in multimodal pre-training have propelled object-level foundation models, such as Grounding DINO and Florence-2, in tasks like visual grounding and object detection. However, interpreting these models' decisions has grown…

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