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Open-sourcing foundation models (FMs) enables broad reuse but also exposes model trainers to economic and safety risks from unrestricted downstream fine-tuning. We address this problem by building non-fine-tunable foundation models: models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ziyao Wang , Nizhang Li , Pingzhi Li , Guoheng Sun , Tianlong Chen , Ang Li

Large multimodal language models (MLLMs) such as GPT-4V and GPT-4o have achieved remarkable advancements in understanding and generating multimodal content, showcasing superior quality and capabilities across diverse tasks. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Xuelu Feng , Yunsheng Li , Dongdong Chen , Mei Gao , Mengchen Liu , Junsong Yuan , Chunming Qiao

We develop a foundation model using 1.2m high resolution satellite images of the Netherlands. By combining a Convolutional Neural Network and a Vision Transformer, the model captures both low- and high-frequency landscape features, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Paul Vermeeren , Heysem Kaya

With access to large-scale, unlabeled medical datasets, researchers are confronted with two questions: Should they attempt to pretrain a custom foundation model on this medical data, or use transfer-learning from an existing generalist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Jakob Ambsdorf , Asbjørn Munk , Sebastian Llambias , Anders Nymark Christensen , Kamil Mikolaj , Randall Balestriero , Martin Tolsgaard , Aasa Feragen , Mads Nielsen

Finetuning from a pretrained deep model is found to yield state-of-the-art performance for many vision tasks. This paper investigates many factors that influence the performance in finetuning for object detection. There is a long-tailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang , Cong Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

Spatial understanding is a critical capability for vision foundation models. While recent advances in large vision models or vision-language models (VLMs) have expanded recognition capabilities, most benchmarks emphasize localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Vahid Mirjalili , Ramin Giahi , Sriram Kollipara , Akshay Kekuda , Kehui Yao , Kai Zhao , Jianpeng Xu , Kaushiki Nag , Sinduja Subramaniam , Topojoy Biswas , Evren Korpeoglu , Kannan Achan

Supervised deep learning models require significant amount of labeled data to achieve an acceptable performance on a specific task. However, when tested on unseen data, the models may not perform well. Therefore, the models need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Akshit Achara , Ram Krishna Pandey

Recently, large models, or foundation models, have exhibited remarkable performance, profoundly impacting research paradigms in diverse domains. Foundation models, trained on extensive and diverse datasets, provide exceptional…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-12-30 Qi Liu , Jianwei Ma

For more than a decade, researchers have measured progress in object recognition on ImageNet-based generalization benchmarks such as ImageNet-A, -C, and -R. Recent advances in foundation models, trained on orders of magnitude more data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Megan Richards , Polina Kirichenko , Diane Bouchacourt , Mark Ibrahim

Foundation Models (FMs) such as GPT-4 encoded with vast knowledge and powerful emergent abilities have achieved remarkable success in various natural language processing and computer vision tasks. Grounding FMs by adapting them to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yan Kang , Tao Fan , Hanlin Gu , Xiaojin Zhang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

This paper investigates an under-explored but important problem: given a collection of pre-trained neural networks, predicting their performance on each multi-modal task without fine-tuning them, such as image recognition, referring,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Fanqing Meng , Wenqi Shao , Zhanglin Peng , Chonghe Jiang , Kaipeng Zhang , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

Recently, large-scale pre-trained models such as Segment-Anything Model (SAM) and Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have demonstrated remarkable success and revolutionized the field of computer vision. These foundation vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Shichao Dong , Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin

Recent progress in self-supervision has shown that pre-training large neural networks on vast amounts of unsupervised data can lead to substantial increases in generalization to downstream tasks. Such models, recently coined foundation…

Since the emergence of the ImageNet dataset, the pretraining and fine-tuning approach has become widely adopted in computer vision due to the ability of ImageNet-pretrained models to learn a wide variety of visual features. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Pablo Meseguer , Rocío del Amor , Adrian Colomer , Valery Naranjo

Foundation models pre-trained on massive datasets, including large language models (LLMs), vision-language models (VLMs), and large multimodal models, have demonstrated remarkable success in diverse downstream tasks. However, recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Neil He , Hiren Madhu , Ngoc Bui , Menglin Yang , Rex Ying

Many real-world applications require recognition models that are robust to different operational conditions and modalities, but at the same time run on small embedded devices, with limited hardware. While for normal size models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Srikanth Muralidharan , Heitor R. Medeiros , Masih Aminbeidokhti , Eric Granger , Marco Pedersoli

Recent deep learning models for tabular data currently compete with the traditional ML models based on decision trees (GBDT). Unlike GBDT, deep models can additionally benefit from pretraining, which is a workhorse of DL for vision and NLP.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Ivan Rubachev , Artem Alekberov , Yury Gorishniy , Artem Babenko

Large foundation models, including large language models (LLMs), vision transformers (ViTs), diffusion, and LLM-based multimodal models, are revolutionizing the entire machine learning lifecycle, from training to deployment. However, the…

Seismic processing plays a crucial role in transforming raw data into high-quality subsurface images, pivotal for various geoscience applications. Despite its importance, traditional seismic processing techniques face challenges such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Fabian Fuchs , Mario Ruben Fernandez , Norman Ettrich , Janis Keuper

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in computer vision with diverse applications. Recent advancements in deep learning have led to powerful depth foundation models (DFMs), yet their evaluation remains challenging due to inconsistencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhenyu Li , Haotong Lin , Jiashi Feng , Peter Wonka , Bingyi Kang