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Achieving machine intelligence requires a smooth integration of perception and reasoning, yet models developed to date tend to specialize in one or the other; sophisticated manipulation of symbols acquired from rich perceptual spaces has so…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Eric Crawford , Guillaume Rabusseau , Joelle Pineau

The field of visual question answering (VQA) has recently seen a surge in research focused on providing explanations for predicted answers. However, current systems mostly rely on separate models to predict answers and generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Chenxi Whitehouse , Tillman Weyde , Pranava Madhyastha

Relational databases underpin critical infrastructure across a wide range of domains, yet the design of generalizable pre-training strategies for learning from relational databases remains an open challenge due to task heterogeneity.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Quang Truong , Zhikai Chen , Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

Vision-Language models (VLMs) show impressive abilities to answer questions on visual inputs (e.g., counting objects in an image), yet demonstrate higher accuracies when performing an analogous task on text (e.g., counting words in a text).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Yaniv Nikankin , Dana Arad , Yossi Gandelsman , Yonatan Belinkov

Prompt Tuning, conditioning on task-specific learned prompt vectors, has emerged as a data-efficient and parameter-efficient method for adapting large pretrained vision-language models to multiple downstream tasks. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Sheng Shen , Shijia Yang , Tianjun Zhang , Bohan Zhai , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Kurt Keutzer , Trevor Darrell

One of the most intriguing features of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) challenge is the unpredictability of the questions. Extracting the information required to answer them demands a variety of image operations from detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Peng Wang , Qi Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Prompt-based learning has emerged as a successful paradigm in natural language processing, where a single general-purpose language model can be instructed to perform any task specified by input prompts. Yet task specification in robotics…

Visual prompting has gained popularity as a method for adapting pre-trained models to specific tasks, particularly in the realm of parameter-efficient tuning. However, existing visual prompting techniques often pad the prompt parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Can Jin , Ying Li , Mingyu Zhao , Shiyu Zhao , Zhenting Wang , Xiaoxiao He , Ligong Han , Tong Che , Dimitris N. Metaxas

While visual imitation learning offers one of the most effective ways of learning from visual demonstrations, generalizing from them requires either hundreds of diverse demonstrations, task specific priors, or large, hard-to-train…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jyothish Pari , Nur Muhammad Shafiullah , Sridhar Pandian Arunachalam , Lerrel Pinto

Existing methods for visual reasoning attempt to directly map inputs to outputs using black-box architectures without explicitly modeling the underlying reasoning processes. As a result, these black-box models often learn to exploit biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Justin Johnson , Bharath Hariharan , Laurens van der Maaten , Judy Hoffman , Li Fei-Fei , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Ross Girshick

State-of-the-art visual recognition and detection systems increasingly rely on large amounts of training data and complex classifiers. Therefore it becomes increasingly expensive both to manually annotate datasets and to keep running times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Stefan Mathe , Cristian Sminchisescu

Incidental supervision from language has become a popular approach for learning generic visual representations that can be prompted to perform many recognition tasks in computer vision. We conduct an in-depth exploration of the CLIP model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Sachit Menon , Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya , Carl Vondrick

This work targets to merge various Vision Transformers (ViTs) trained on different tasks (i.e., datasets with different object categories) or domains (i.e., datasets with the same categories but different environments) into one unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Peng Ye , Chenyu Huang , Mingzhu Shen , Tao Chen , Yongqi Huang , Yuning Zhang , Wanli Ouyang

Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) has proven effective for parameter-efficient adaptation of pre-trained vision models to downstream tasks by inserting task-specific learnable prompt tokens. Despite its empirical success, a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Minh Le , Anh Nguyen , Huy Nguyen , Chau Nguyen , Anh Tran , Nhat Ho

Current multimodal models, aimed at solving Vision and Language (V+L) tasks, predominantly repurpose Vision Encoders (VE) as feature extractors. While many VEs -- of different architectures, trained on different data and objectives -- are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Gregor Geigle , Chen Cecilia Liu , Jonas Pfeiffer , Iryna Gurevych

We revisit and advance visual prompting (VP), an input prompting technique for vision tasks. VP can reprogram a fixed, pre-trained source model to accomplish downstream tasks in the target domain by simply incorporating universal prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Aochuan Chen , Yuguang Yao , Pin-Yu Chen , Yihua Zhang , Sijia Liu

We present a simplified, task-agnostic multi-modal pre-training approach that can accept either video or text input, or both for a variety of end tasks. Existing pre-training are task-specific by adopting either a single cross-modal encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Hu Xu , Gargi Ghosh , Po-Yao Huang , Prahal Arora , Masoumeh Aminzadeh , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Florian Metze , Luke Zettlemoyer

The notable gap between user-provided and model-preferred prompts poses a significant challenge for generating high-quality images with text-to-image models, compelling the need for prompt engineering. Current studies on prompt engineering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shiyu Wu , Mingzhen Sun , Weining Wang , Yequan Wang , Jing Liu

We study the task of embodied visual active learning, where an agent is set to explore a 3d environment with the goal to acquire visual scene understanding by actively selecting views for which to request annotation. While accurate on some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 David Nilsson , Aleksis Pirinen , Erik Gärtner , Cristian Sminchisescu

Video action localization aims to find the timings of specific actions from a long video. Although existing learning-based approaches have been successful, they require annotating videos, which comes with a considerable labor cost. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Naoki Wake , Atsushi Kanehira , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Jun Takamatsu , Katsushi Ikeuchi