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Prompt-based learning is susceptible to intrinsic bias present in pre-trained language models (LMs), leading to sub-optimal performance in prompt-based zero/few-shot settings. In this work, we propose a null-input prompting method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kang He , Yinghan Long , Kaushik Roy

Prompt tuning has shown promising results, but its robustness and generalization to unseen categories remain limited. Through our experiments, we demonstrate that the complete removal of semantic noise is a key factor restricting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yansheng Gao , Yufei Zheng , Shengsheng Wang

Active domain adaptation has emerged as a solution to balance the expensive annotation cost and the performance of trained models in semantic segmentation. However, existing works usually ignore the correlation between selected samples and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Shizhan Liu , Zhengkai Jiang , Yuxi Li , Jinlong Peng , Yabiao Wang , Weiyao Lin

Prompt-based learning has emerged as a parameter-efficient finetuning (PEFT) approach to facilitate Large Language Model (LLM) adaptation to downstream tasks by conditioning generation with task-aware guidance. Despite its successes,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yiyang Liu , James C. Liang , Heng Fan , Wenhao Yang , Yiming Cui , Xiaotian Han , Lifu Huang , Dongfang Liu , Qifan Wang , Cheng Han

Multi-prompt learning methods have emerged as an effective approach for facilitating the rapid adaptation of vision-language models to downstream tasks with limited resources. Existing multi-prompt learning methods primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Fei Song , Yi Li , Jiangmeng Li , Rui Wang , Changwen Zheng , Fanjiang Xu , Hui Xiong

Pre-trained language models have achieved noticeable performance on the intent detection task. However, due to assigning an identical weight to each sample, they suffer from the overfitting of simple samples and the failure to learn complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Yantao Gong , Cao Liu , Jiazhen Yuan , Fan Yang , Xunliang Cai , Guanglu Wan , Jiansong Chen , Ruiyao Niu , Houfeng Wang

A particularly successful class of approaches for few-shot learning combines language models with prompts -- hand-crafted task descriptions that complement data samples. However, designing prompts by hand for each task commonly requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Rami Aly , Xingjian Shi , Kaixiang Lin , Aston Zhang , Andrew Gordon Wilson

This paper proposes an adaptive margin contrastive learning method for 3D semantic segmentation on point clouds. Most existing methods use equally penalized objectives, which ignore the per-point ambiguities and less discriminated features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Yang Chen , Yueqi Duan , Haowen Sun , Jiwen Lu , Yap-Peng Tan

In automated essay scoring (AES), recent efforts have shifted toward cross-prompt settings that score essays on unseen prompts for practical applicability. However, prior methods trained with essay-score pairs of specific prompts pose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Heejin Do , Taehee Park , Sangwon Ryu , Gary Geunbae Lee

Keypoint detection is the foundation of many computer vision tasks, including image registration, structure-from-motion, 3D reconstruction, visual odometry, and SLAM. Traditional detectors (SIFT, ORB, BRISK, FAST, etc.) and learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shaharyar Ahmed Khan Tareen , Filza Khan Tareen , Xiaojing Yuan

Recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models show outstanding performance in generating high-quality images conditioned on textual prompts. However, they fail to semantically align the generated images with the prompts due to their limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ruichen Wang , Zekang Chen , Chen Chen , Jian Ma , Haonan Lu , Xiaodong Lin

Occlusions, complex backgrounds, scale variations and non-uniform distributions present great challenges for crowd counting in practical applications. In this paper, we propose a novel method using an attention model to exploit head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Youmei Zhang , Chunluan Zhou , Faliang Chang , Alex C. Kot

Recently, CLIP-based approaches have exhibited remarkable performance on generalization and few-shot learning tasks, fueled by the power of contrastive language-vision pre-training. In particular, prompt tuning has emerged as an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Balamurali Murugesan , Rukhshanda Hussain , Rajarshi Bhattacharya , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Despite the growing prevalence of black-box pre-trained models (PTMs) such as prediction API services, there remains a significant challenge in directly applying general models to real-world scenarios due to the data distribution gap.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Wonwoo Cho , Kangyeol Kim , Saemee Choi , Jaegul Choo

This paper tackles the problem of object counting in images. Existing approaches rely on extensive training data with point annotations for each object, making data collection labor-intensive and time-consuming. To overcome this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Zenglin Shi , Ying Sun , Mengmi Zhang

Instance segmentation methods require large datasets with expensive and thus limited instance-level mask labels. Partially supervised instance segmentation aims to improve mask prediction with limited mask labels by utilizing the more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 David Biertimpel , Sindi Shkodrani , Anil S. Baslamisli , Nóra Baka

Using prompts to explore the knowledge contained within pre-trained language models for downstream tasks has now become an active topic. Current prompt tuning methods mostly convert the downstream tasks to masked language modeling problems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Jiale Han , Shuai Zhao , Bo Cheng , Shengkun Ma , Wei Lu

Class-Agnostic object Counting (CAC) involves counting instances of objects from arbitrary classes within an image. Due to its practical importance, CAC has received increasing attention in recent years. Most existing methods assume a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Michail Spanakis , Iason Oikonomidis , Antonis Argyros

Text-to-image diffusion models have recently attracted the interest of many researchers, and inverting the diffusion process can play an important role in better understanding the generative process and how to engineer prompts in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

Deep classifiers tend to associate a few discriminative input variables with their objective function, which in turn, may hurt their generalization capabilities. To address this, one can design systematic experiments and/or inspect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Kaveh Hassani , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Amir Hosein Khasahmadi , Tonya Custis