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Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP) has recently demonstrated success across various tasks due to superior feature representation empowered by image-text contrastive learning. However, the instance discrimination method used by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Xiang An , Kaicheng Yang , Xiangzi Dai , Ziyong Feng , Jiankang Deng

Contrastive vision-language models like CLIP are used for a large variety of applications, such as zero-shot classification or as vision encoder for multi-modal models. Despite their popularity, their representations show major limitations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Bijay Gurung , David T. Hoffmann , Thomas Brox

CLIP models perform remarkably well on zero-shot classification and retrieval tasks. But recent studies have shown that learnt representations in CLIP are not well suited for dense prediction tasks like object detection, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , Hadi Pouransari , Fartash Faghri , Oncel Tuzel

Recently, there have been breakthroughs in computer vision ("CV") models that are more generalizable with the advent of models such as CLIP and ALIGN. In this paper, we analyze CLIP and highlight some of the challenges such models pose.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Sandhini Agarwal , Gretchen Krueger , Jack Clark , Alec Radford , Jong Wook Kim , Miles Brundage

There are a thousand ways to caption an image. Contrastive Language Pretraining (CLIP) on the other hand, works by mapping an image and its caption to a single vector -- limiting how well CLIP-like models can represent the diverse ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Samuel Lavoie , Polina Kirichenko , Mark Ibrahim , Mahmoud Assran , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Aaron Courville , Nicolas Ballas

Cross-modal alignment aims to map heterogeneous modalities into a shared latent space, as exemplified by models like CLIP, which benefit from large-scale image-text pretraining for strong recognition capabilities. However, when operating in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiaxiang Liu , Yuan Wang , Jiawei Du , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Mingkun Xu , Zuozhu Liu

Continual learning (CL) aims to help deep neural networks learn new knowledge while retaining what has been learned. Owing to their powerful generalizability, pre-trained vision-language models such as Contrastive Language-Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Saurav Jha , Dong Gong , Lina Yao

After pre-training on extensive image-text pairs, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) demonstrates promising performance on a wide variety of benchmarks. However, a substantial volume of multimodal interleaved documents remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Chaoyi Zhang , Yin Xie , Xiang An , Ziyong Feng , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng

Multimodal representation learning, exemplified by multimodal contrastive learning (MMCL) using image-text pairs, aims to learn powerful representations by aligning cues across modalities. This approach relies on the core assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yichao Cai , Yuhang Liu , Erdun Gao , Tianjiao Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Anton van den Hengel , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Deep learning based visual-linguistic multimodal models such as Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP) have become increasingly popular recently and are used within text-to-image generative models such as DALL-E and Stable…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Abhishek Mandal , Suzanne Little , Susan Leavy

Data selection has emerged as a core issue for large-scale visual-language model pretaining (e.g., CLIP), particularly with noisy web-curated datasets. Three main data selection approaches are: (1) leveraging external non-CLIP models to aid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yiping Wang , Yifang Chen , Wendan Yan , Alex Fang , Wenjing Zhou , Kevin Jamieson , Simon Shaolei Du

This paper investigates the performance of the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) when scaled down to limited computation budgets. We explore CLIP along three dimensions: data, architecture, and training strategies. With regards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zichao Li , Cihang Xie , Ekin Dogus Cubuk

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

State-of-the-art empirical work has shown that visual representations learned by deep neural networks are robust in nature and capable of performing classification tasks on diverse datasets. For example, CLIP demonstrated zero-shot transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Chanda Grover , Indra Deep Mastan , Debayan Gupta

Large pre-trained vision-language models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of image classification tasks, without requiring retraining. Few-shot CLIP is competitive with existing specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Dominykas Seputis , Serghei Mihailov , Soham Chatterjee , Zehao Xiao

Few-shot classification requires deep neural networks to learn generalized representations only from limited training images, which is challenging but significant in low-data regimes. Recently, CLIP-based methods have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Renrui Zhang , Bohao Li , Wei Zhang , Hao Dong , Hongsheng Li , Peng Gao , Yu Qiao

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has achieved excellent performance over a wide range of tasks. However, the effectiveness of CLIP heavily relies on a substantial corpus of pre-training data, resulting in notable consumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Kaicheng Yang , Tiancheng Gu , Xiang An , Haiqiang Jiang , Xiangzi Dai , Ziyong Feng , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng

Existing contrastive language-image pre-training aims to learn a joint representation by matching abundant image-text pairs. However, the number of image-text pairs in medical datasets is usually orders of magnitude smaller than that in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Jiarun Liu , Hong-Yu Zhou , Cheng Li , Weijian Huang , Hao Yang , Yong Liang , Shanshan Wang

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

Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP are trained via contrastive learning between text and image pairs, resulting in aligned image and text embeddings that are useful for many downstream tasks. A notable drawback of CLIP, however, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dylan Sam , Devin Willmott , Joao D. Semedo , J. Zico Kolter