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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has significantly improved performance in various vision-language tasks by expanding the dataset with image-text pairs obtained from websites. This paper further explores CLIP from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Xiang An , Ziyong Feng , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng

Several benchmarks have concluded that our best vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) are lacking in compositionality. Given an image, these benchmarks probe a model's ability to identify its associated caption amongst a set of compositional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Amita Kamath , Cheng-Yu Hsieh , Kai-Wei Chang , Ranjay Krishna

Vision-language models such as CLIP have shown impressive capabilities in encoding texts and images into aligned embeddings, enabling the retrieval of multimodal data in a shared embedding space. However, these embedding-based models still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Timothy Ossowski , Ming Jiang , Junjie Hu

Vision language models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities in visual question answering and image captioning, acting as a crucial link between visual and language models. However, existing open-source VLMs heavily rely on pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Aristeidis Panos , Rahaf Aljundi , Daniel Olmeda Reino , Richard E Turner

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel at image-text retrieval yet persistently fail at compositional reasoning, distinguishing captions that share the same words but differ in relational structure. We present, a unified evaluation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Amartya Bhattacharya

Dual encoder Vision-Language Models (VLM) such as CLIP are widely used for image-text retrieval tasks. However, those models struggle with compositionality, showing a bag-of-words-like behavior that limits their retrieval performance. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Imanol Miranda , Ander Salaberria , Eneko Agirre , Gorka Azkune

Contrastive vision-language models such as CLIP have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks by learning from aligned image-text pairs. However, their ability to handle complex, real-world web documents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yiqi Lin , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Linjie Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Mike Zheng Shou

Vision and Language (VL) models offer an effective method for aligning representation spaces of images and text, leading to numerous applications such as cross-modal retrieval, visual question answering, captioning, and more. However, the…

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

Compositional reasoning in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) remains challenging as these models often struggle to relate objects, attributes, and spatial relationships. Recent methods aim to address these limitations by relying on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Paola Cascante-Bonilla , Yu Hou , Yang Trista Cao , Hal Daumé , Rachel Rudinger

Compositional reasoning is a hallmark of human visual intelligence. Yet, despite the size of large vision-language models, they struggle to represent simple compositions by combining objects with their attributes. To measure this lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Arijit Ray , Filip Radenovic , Abhimanyu Dubey , Bryan A. Plummer , Ranjay Krishna , Kate Saenko

Existing vision-language models (VLMs) treat text descriptions as a unit, confusing individual concepts in a prompt and impairing visual semantic matching and reasoning. An important aspect of reasoning in logic and language is negations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Jaisidh Singh , Ishaan Shrivastava , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh , Aparna Bharati

Multimodal Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a transformative topic at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, enabling machines to perceive and reason about the world through both visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zongxia Li , Xiyang Wu , Hongyang Du , Fuxiao Liu , Huy Nghiem , Guangyao Shi

Vision-language (VL) models often exhibit a limited understanding of complex expressions of visual objects (e.g., attributes, shapes, and their relations), given complex and diverse language queries. Traditional approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Kwanyong Park , Kuniaki Saito , Donghyun Kim

Recent vision-language models (VLMs) typically rely on a single vision encoder trained with contrastive image-text objectives, such as CLIP-style pretraining. While contrastive encoders are effective for cross-modal alignment and retrieval,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ankan Deria , Komal Kumar , Xilin He , Imran Razzak , Hisham Cholakkal , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan

In this paper, we explore the potential of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), specifically CLIP, in predicting visual object relationships, which involves interpreting visual features from images into language-based relations. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Rakshith Subramanyam , T. S. Jayram , Rushil Anirudh , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

We investigate 17 benchmarks (e.g. SugarCREPE, VALSE) commonly used for measuring compositional understanding capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs). We scrutinize design choices in their construction, including data source (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Vishaal Udandarao , Mehdi Cherti , Shyamgopal Karthik , Jenia Jitsev , Samuel Albanie , Matthias Bethge

Visually-conditioned language models (VLMs) have seen growing adoption in applications such as visual dialogue, scene understanding, and robotic task planning; adoption that has fueled a wealth of new models such as LLaVa, InstructBLIP, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Siddharth Karamcheti , Suraj Nair , Ashwin Balakrishna , Percy Liang , Thomas Kollar , Dorsa Sadigh

Vision-language models (VLMs) are typically composed of a vision encoder, e.g. CLIP, and a language model (LM) that interprets the encoded features to solve downstream tasks. Despite remarkable progress, VLMs are subject to several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , Alessio Tonioni , Petra Poklukar , Achin Kulshrestha , Amir Zamir , Federico Tombari

Recent advancements in Vision-Language (VL) research have sparked new benchmarks for complex visual reasoning, challenging models' advanced reasoning ability. Traditional Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well in visual perception tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhiyuan Li , Dongnan Liu , Chaoyi Zhang , Heng Wang , Tengfei Xue , Weidong Cai