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Explaining Deep Learning models is becoming increasingly important in the face of daily emerging multimodal models, particularly in safety-critical domains like medical imaging. However, the lack of detailed investigations into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Mohammad Yaqub

Mechanistic interpretability seeks to understand the neural mechanisms that enable specific behaviors in Large Language Models (LLMs) by leveraging causality-based methods. While these approaches have identified neural circuits that copy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Vedant Palit , Rohan Pandey , Aryaman Arora , Paul Pu Liang

Many vision-language models (VLMs) that prove very effective at a range of multimodal task, build on CLIP-based vision encoders, which are known to have various limitations. We investigate the hypothesis that the strong language backbone in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sho Takishita , Jay Gala , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Kentaro Inui , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Joint vision-language models have shown great performance over a diverse set of tasks. However, little is known about their limitations, as the high dimensional space learned by these models makes it difficult to identify semantic errors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Santiago Castro , Oana Ignat , Rada Mihalcea

Negation is a common linguistic feature that is crucial in many language understanding tasks, yet it remains a hard problem due to diversity in its expression in different types of text. Recent work has shown that state-of-the-art NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Thinh Hung Truong , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn , Karin Verspoor

In this paper, we study a practical but less-touched problem in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), \ie, negation understanding. Specifically, many real-world applications require models to explicitly identify what is false or non-existent, \eg,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Haochen Han , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Fangming Liu , Jun Zhu

Multimodal learning can benefit from the representation power of pretrained Large Language Models (LLMs). However, state-of-the-art transformer based LLMs often ignore negations in natural language and there is no existing benchmark to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Judith Yue Li , Aren Jansen , Qingqing Huang , Joonseok Lee , Ravi Ganti , Dima Kuzmin

The development of large-scale image-text pair datasets has significantly advanced self-supervised learning in Vision-Language Processing (VLP). However, directly applying general-domain architectures such as CLIP to medical data presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Hanbin Ko , Chang-Min Park

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models have demonstrated remarkable performance in zero-shot classification tasks, yet their efficacy in handling complex multi-object scenarios remains challenging. This study presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Reza Abbasi , Ali Nazari , Aminreza Sefid , Mohammadali Banayeeanzade , Mohammad Hossein Rohban , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

We study how Large Language Models (LLMs) process negation mechanistically. First, we establish that even though open-weight models often provide wrong answers to questions involving negation, they do possess internal components that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zhejian Zhou , Tianyi Zhou , Robin Jia , Jonathan May

Negation, a linguistic construct conveying absence, denial, or contradiction, poses significant challenges for multilingual multimodal foundation models. These models excel in tasks like machine translation, text-guided generation, image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Mayank Vatsa , Aparna Bharati , Surbhi Mittal , Richa Singh

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models have shown significant potential, particularly in zero-shot classification across diverse distribution shifts. Building on existing evaluations of overall classification robustness, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Weijie Tu , Weijian Deng , Tom Gedeon

Current state-of-the-art vision-and-language models are evaluated on tasks either individually or in a multi-task setting, overlooking the challenges of continually learning (CL) tasks as they arrive. Existing CL benchmarks have facilitated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Tejas Srinivasan , Ting-Yun Chang , Leticia Leonor Pinto Alva , Georgios Chochlakis , Mohammad Rostami , Jesse Thomason

In learning vision-language representations from web-scale data, the contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) mechanism has demonstrated a remarkable performance in many vision tasks. However, its application to the widely studied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Fengchuang Xing , Mingjie Li , Yuan-Gen Wang , Guopu Zhu , Xiaochun Cao

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) efficiently learns visual concepts by pre-training with natural language supervision. CLIP and its visual encoder have been explored on various vision and language tasks and achieve strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 An Yan , Jiacheng Li , Wanrong Zhu , Yujie Lu , William Yang Wang , Julian McAuley

Recent research has shown that CLIP models struggle with visual reasoning tasks that require grounding compositionality, understanding spatial relationships, or capturing fine-grained details. One natural hypothesis is that the CLIP vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Siting Li , Pang Wei Koh , Simon Shaolei Du

This work explores how color is encoded in CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) which is currently the most influential VML (Visual Language model) in Artificial Intelligence. After performing different experiments on synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Guillem Arias , Ramon Baldrich , Maria Vanrell

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are susceptible to object hallucinations, an issue in which their generated text contains non-existent objects, greatly limiting their reliability and practicality. Current approaches often rely on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Ailin Deng , Zhirui Chen , Bryan Hooi

Vision-language pre-training like CLIP has shown promising performance on various downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification and image-text retrieval. Most of the existing CLIP-alike works usually adopt relatively large image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ying Nie , Wei He , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Tianyu Guo , Fanyi Du , Yunhe Wang

Negation has been shown to be a major bottleneck for masked language models, such as BERT. However, whether this finding still holds for larger-sized auto-regressive language models (``LLMs'') has not been studied comprehensively. With the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Thinh Hung Truong , Timothy Baldwin , Karin Verspoor , Trevor Cohn