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We argue that generative text-to-image models often struggle with prompt adherence due to the noisy and unstructured nature of large-scale datasets like LAION-5B. This forces users to rely heavily on prompt engineering to elicit desirable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Nicholas Merchant , Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Andrei Cristian Popescu , Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) is an approach that has advanced research and applications in computer vision, fueling modern recognition systems and generative models. We believe that the main ingredient to the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hu Xu , Saining Xie , Xiaoqing Ellen Tan , Po-Yao Huang , Russell Howes , Vasu Sharma , Shang-Wen Li , Gargi Ghosh , Luke Zettlemoyer , Christoph Feichtenhofer

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

The advent of vision-language pre-training techniques enhanced substantial progress in the development of models for image captioning. However, these models frequently produce generic captions and may omit semantically important image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Noam Rotstein , David Bensaid , Shaked Brody , Roy Ganz , Ron Kimmel

Large-scale vision-and-language models, such as CLIP, are typically trained on web-scale data, which can introduce inappropriate content and lead to the development of unsafe and biased behavior. This, in turn, hampers their applicability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Samuele Poppi , Tobia Poppi , Federico Cocchi , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Massive web datasets play a key role in the success of large vision-language models like CLIP and Flamingo. However, the raw web data is noisy, and existing filtering methods to reduce noise often come at the expense of data diversity. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Thao Nguyen , Samir Yitzhak Gadre , Gabriel Ilharco , Sewoong Oh , Ludwig Schmidt

Robust behaviour recognition in real-world farm environments remains challenging due to several data-related limitations, including the scarcity of well-annotated livestock video datasets and the substantial domain gap between large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Huimin Liu , Jing Gao , Daria Baran , AxelX Montout , Neill W Campbell , Andrew W Dowsey

The CLIP network measures the similarity between natural text and images; in this work, we investigate the entanglement of the representation of word images and natural images in its image encoder. First, we find that the image encoder has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Joanna Materzynska , Antonio Torralba , David Bau

Pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have recently shown superior performances on various downstream tasks, including image classification and segmentation. However, in fine-grained image re-identification (ReID), the labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Siyuan Li , Li Sun , Qingli Li

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), a simple yet effective pre-training paradigm, successfully introduces text supervision to vision models. It has shown promising results across various tasks due to its generalizability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zihao Zhao , Yuxiao Liu , Han Wu , Mei Wang , Yonghao Li , Sheng Wang , Lin Teng , Disheng Liu , Zhiming Cui , Qian Wang , Dinggang Shen

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) is a popular foundation model, supporting from zero-shot classification, retrieval to encoders for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Although CLIP is successfully trained on…

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, establish the correlation between texts and images, achieving remarkable success on various downstream tasks with fine-tuning. In existing fine-tuning methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yi Zhang , Ce Zhang , Yushun Tang , Zhihai He

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

Large-scale pre-trained image-text models demonstrate remarkable versatility across diverse tasks, benefiting from their robust representational capabilities and effective multimodal alignment. We extend the application of these models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Sooyoung Park , Arda Senocak , Joon Son Chung

Supervised or weakly supervised methods for phrase localization (textual grounding) either rely on human annotations or some other supervised models, e.g., object detectors. Obtaining these annotations is labor-intensive and may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jiahao Li , Greg Shakhnarovich , Raymond A. Yeh

This study presents a control framework leveraging vision language models (VLMs) for multiple tasks and robots. Notably, existing control methods using VLMs have achieved high performance in various tasks and robots in the training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Kazuki Shibata , Hideki Deguchi , Shun Taguchi

CLIP outperforms self-supervised models like DINO as vision encoders for vision-language models (VLMs), but it remains unclear whether this advantage stems from CLIP's language supervision or its much larger training data. To disentangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yiming Liu , Yuhui Zhang , Dhruba Ghosh , Ludwig Schmidt , Serena Yeung-Levy

Modern applications increasingly demand flexible computer vision models that adapt to novel concepts not encountered during training. This necessity is pivotal in emerging domains like extended reality, robotics, and autonomous driving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Lorenzo Bianchi , Fabio Carrara , Nicola Messina , Fabrizio Falchi

The dream of instantly creating rich 360-degree panoramic worlds from text is rapidly becoming a reality, yet a crucial gap exists in our ability to reliably evaluate their semantic alignment. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hai Wang , Xiaochen Yang , Mingzhi Dong , Jing-Hao Xue

Large pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have shown great potential in learning representations that are transferable across a wide range of downstream tasks. Different from the traditional representation learning that is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Kaiyang Zhou , Jingkang Yang , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu