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We present RECLIP (Resource-efficient CLIP), a simple method that minimizes computational resource footprint for CLIP (Contrastive Language Image Pretraining). Inspired by the notion of coarse-to-fine in computer vision, we leverage small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Runze Li , Dahun Kim , Bir Bhanu , Weicheng Kuo

Virtual screening aims to efficiently identify active ligands from massive chemical libraries for a given target pocket. Recent CLIP-style models such as DrugCLIP enable scalable virtual screening by embedding pockets and ligands into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Anjie Qiao , Zhen Wang , Yaliang Li , Jiahua Rao , Yuedong Yang

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have experienced rapid advancements, their visual encoders frequently remain a performance bottleneck. Conventional CLIP-based encoders struggle with dense spatial tasks due to the loss of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Peisen Zhao , Xiaopeng Zhang , Mingxing Xu , Ruoyu Sun , Zewei Du , Dunzheng Wang , Guanghao Zheng , Haohang Xu , Zhibo Zhang , Yuhang Zhang , Yi Ai , Lin Liu , Qi Tian

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

Transfer learning enables the sharing of common knowledge among models for a variety of downstream tasks, but traditional methods suffer in limited training data settings and produce narrow models incapable of effectively generalizing under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kevin Vogt-Lowell , Noah Lee , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Marc Vaillant

Recent studies have shown that CLIP has achieved remarkable success in performing zero-shot inference while its fine-tuning performance is not satisfactory. In this paper, we identify that fine-tuning performance is significantly impacted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Xiaoyi Dong , Jianmin Bao , Ting Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Shuyang Gu , Weiming Zhang , Lu Yuan , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Nenghai Yu

Vision-language models like CLIP show impressive ability to align images and text, but their training on short, concise captions makes them struggle with lengthy, detailed descriptions. Recent advances mitigate this challenge by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chau Truong , Hieu Ta Quang , Dung D. Le

Fine-tuning vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP to downstream tasks is often necessary to optimize their performance. However, a major obstacle is the limited availability of labeled data. We study the use of pseudolabels, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Cristina Menghini , Andrew Delworth , Stephen H. Bach

We propose PureCLIP-Depth, a completely prompt-free, decoder-free Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) model that operates entirely within the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) embedding space. Unlike recent models that rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ryutaro Miya , Kazuyoshi Fushinobu , Tatsuya Kawaguchi

Visual classification can be divided into coarse-grained and fine-grained classification. Coarse-grained classification represents categories with a large degree of dissimilarity, such as the classification of cats and dogs, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Po-Yung Chou , Cheng-Hung Lin , Wen-Chung Kao

Contrastive image-text pre-trained models such as CLIP have shown remarkable adaptability to downstream tasks. However, they face challenges due to the high computational requirements of the Vision Transformer (ViT) backbone. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Cheng-En Wu , Jinhong Lin , Yu Hen Hu , Pedro Morgado

Large pre-trained vision-language models such as CLIP provide compact and general-purpose representations of text and images that are demonstrably effective across multiple downstream zero-shot prediction tasks. However, owing to the nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Sepehr Dehdashtian , Lan Wang , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Low-shot image classification is a fundamental task in computer vision, and the emergence of large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP has greatly advanced the forefront of research in this field. However, most existing CLIP-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yibo Miao , Yu Lei , Feng Zhou , Zhijie Deng

Calibration of deep learning models is crucial to their trustworthiness and safe usage, and as such, has been extensively studied in supervised classification models, with methods crafted to decrease miscalibration. However, there has yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Will LeVine , Benjamin Pikus , Pranav Raja , Fernando Amat Gil

Measuring perceptual similarity is a key tool in computer vision. In recent years perceptual metrics based on features extracted from neural networks with large and diverse training sets, e.g. CLIP, have become popular. At the same time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Francesco Croce , Christian Schlarmann , Naman Deep Singh , Matthias Hein

Self-supervised contrastive learning models, such as CLIP, have set new benchmarks for vision-language models in many downstream tasks. However, their dependency on rigid one-to-one mappings overlooks the complex and often multifaceted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yiming Zhang , Zhuokai Zhao , Zhaorun Chen , Zhili Feng , Zenghui Ding , Yining Sun

Vision-Language models like CLIP have been shown to be highly effective at linking visual perception and natural language understanding, enabling sophisticated image-text capabilities, including strong retrieval and zero-shot classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Naman Deep Singh , Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

Deep Learning (DL) is undergoing a paradigm shift with the emergence of foundation models. In this work, we focus on Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), a Vision-Language foundation model that achieves high accuracy across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Angelos Zavras , Dimitrios Michail , Begüm Demir , Ioannis Papoutsis

Contrastive language image pretraining (CLIP) is a standard method for training vision-language models. While CLIP is scalable, promptable, and robust to distribution shifts on image classification tasks, it lacks object localization…

Modern image captioning models are usually trained with text similarity objectives. However, since reference captions in public datasets often describe the most salient common objects, models trained with text similarity objectives tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jaemin Cho , Seunghyun Yoon , Ajinkya Kale , Franck Dernoncourt , Trung Bui , Mohit Bansal