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CLIP achieves strong zero-shot image-text retrieval by aligning global vision and text representations, yet it falls behind on fine-grained tasks even when fine-tuned on long, detailed captions. In this work, we propose $\beta$-CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Fatimah Zohra , Chen Zhao , Hani Itani , Bernard Ghanem

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by leveraging semantic information from seen classes, but most existing methods assume accurate class labels for training instances. However, in real-world scenarios, noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jinfu Fan , Jiangnan Li , Xiaowen Yan , Xiaohui Zhong , Wenpeng Lu , Linqing Huang

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

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated remarkable zero-shot classification ability, namely image classification using novel text labels. Existing works have attempted to enhance CLIP by fine-tuning on downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Seongha Eom , Namgyu Ho , Jaehoon Oh , Se-Young Yun

Foundation image-text models such as CLIP with zero-shot capabilities enable a wide array of applications. MobileCLIP is a recent family of image-text models at 3-15ms latency and 50-150M parameters with state-of-the-art zero-shot accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Fartash Faghri , Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , Cem Koc , Vaishaal Shankar , Alexander Toshev , Oncel Tuzel , Hadi Pouransari

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) stands out as a prominent method for image representation learning. Various architectures, from vision transformers (ViTs) to convolutional networks (ResNets) have been trained with CLIP to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damien Teney , Hamed Damirchi , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Anton van den Hengel

Multimodal representation learning produces high-dimensional embeddings that align diverse modalities in a shared latent space. While this enables strong generalization, it also introduces scalability challenges, both in terms of storage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Eleonora Grassucci , Giordano Cicchetti , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

Contrastive learning is a cornerstone underlying recent progress in multi-view and multimodal learning, e.g., in representation learning with image/caption pairs. While its effectiveness is not yet fully understood, a line of recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Imant Daunhawer , Alice Bizeul , Emanuele Palumbo , Alexander Marx , Julia E. Vogt

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a cornerstone in vision-language representation learning, powering diverse downstream tasks and serving as the default vision backbone in multimodal large language models (MLLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Chuan Qin , Constantin Venhoff , Sonia Joseph , Fanyi Xiao , Stefan Scherer

Zero-shot action recognition is challenging due to the semantic gap between seen and unseen classes. We present a novel framework that enhances CLIP with disentangled embeddings and semantic-guided interaction. A Motion Separation Module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yiming Wang , Frederick W. B. Li , Jingyun Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) stands out as a prominent method for image representation learning. Various neural architectures, spanning Transformer-based models like Vision Transformers (ViTs) to Convolutional Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Hamed Damirchi , Ignacio M. Jara , Felipe Bravo-Marquez , Anton van den Hengel

Conventional object detectors rely on cross-entropy classification, which can be vulnerable to class imbalance and label noise. We propose CLIP-Joint-Detect, a simple and detector-agnostic framework that integrates CLIP-style contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Behnam Raoufi , Hossein Sharify , Mohamad Mahdee Ramezanee , Khosrow Hajsadeghi , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki

Contrastive models like CLIP have been shown to learn robust representations of images that capture both semantics and style. To leverage these representations for image generation, we propose a two-stage model: a prior that generates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Aditya Ramesh , Prafulla Dhariwal , Alex Nichol , Casey Chu , Mark Chen

Pre-training image representations from the raw text about images enables zero-shot vision transfer to downstream tasks. Through pre-training on millions of samples collected from the internet, multimodal foundation models, such as CLIP,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Chenguang Wang , Ruoxi Jia , Xin Liu , Dawn Song

CLIP is a widely used foundational vision-language model that is used for zero-shot image recognition and other image-text alignment tasks. We demonstrate that CLIP is vulnerable to change in image quality under compression. This surprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Cangxiong Chen , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Julian Padget

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has recently shown great promise in pixel-level zero-shot learning tasks. However, existing approaches utilizing CLIP's text and patch embeddings to generate semantic masks often misidentify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jingyao Li , Pengguang Chen , Shengju Qian , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

Multimodal encoders like CLIP excel in tasks such as zero-shot image classification and cross-modal retrieval. However, they require excessive training data. We propose canonical similarity analysis (CSA), which uses two unimodal encoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Po-han Li , Sandeep P. Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu

In cross-domain few-shot classification (CFC), recent works mainly focus on adapting a simple transformation head on top of a frozen pre-trained backbone with few labeled data to project embeddings into a task-specific metric space where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Hongduan Tian , Feng Liu , Zhanke Zhou , Tongliang Liu , Chengqi Zhang , Bo Han

Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) using image-text pairs has achieved impressive results on image classification in both zero-shot and transfer learning settings. However, we show that directly applying such models to recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Yiwu Zhong , Jianwei Yang , Pengchuan Zhang , Chunyuan Li , Noel Codella , Liunian Harold Li , Luowei Zhou , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Yin Li , Jianfeng Gao