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The advent of pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has significantly transformed Continual Learning (CL), mainly due to their zero-shot classification abilities. Such proficiency makes VLMs well-suited for real-world applications,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Aniello Panariello , Emanuele Frascaroli , Pietro Buzzega , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara

Continual learning has gained increasing importance as it facilitates the acquisition and refinement of scalable knowledge and skills in language models. However, existing methods typically encounter strict limitations and challenges in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Bohao Peng , Zhuotao Tian , Shu Liu , Mingchang Yang , Jiaya Jia

The domain adaptation of language models, including large language models (LLMs), has become increasingly important as the use of such models continues to expand. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of Composition to Augment Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kota Tanabe , Masanori Hirano , Kazuki Matoya , Kentaro Imajo , Hiroki Sakaji , Itsuki Noda

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) possess extensive text knowledge but struggles to utilize this knowledge for fine-grained image recognition, often failing to differentiate between visually similar categories. Existing fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Raja Kumar , Arka Sadhu , Ram Nevatia

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) trained with visual instruction tuning have achieved strong performance across diverse tasks, yet they remain limited in vision-centric tasks such as object counting or spatial reasoning. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Heeji Yoon , Jaewoo Jung , Junwan Kim , Hyungyu Choi , Heeseong Shin , Sangbeom Lim , Honggyu An , Chaehyun Kim , Jisang Han , Donghyun Kim , Chanho Eom , Sunghwan Hong , Seungryong Kim

Visual Language Models (VLMs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially those from adversarial images, which is however under-explored in literature. To facilitate research on this critical safety problem, we first construct a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Youcheng Huang , Fengbin Zhu , Jingkun Tang , Pan Zhou , Wenqiang Lei , Jiancheng Lv , Tat-Seng Chua

We introduce FLARE, a family of vision language models (VLMs) with a fully vision-language alignment and integration paradigm. Unlike existing approaches that rely on single MLP projectors for modality alignment and defer cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zheng Liu , Mengjie Liu , Jingzhou Chen , Jingwei Xu , Bin Cui , Conghui He , Wentao Zhang

Learning recipe and food image representation in common embedding space is non-trivial but crucial for cross-modal recipe retrieval. In this paper, we propose a new perspective for this problem by utilizing foundation models for data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Fangzhou Song , Bin Zhu , Yanbin Hao , Shuo Wang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have revolutionized the landscape of AI, demonstrating impressive capabilities in tackling complex vision and audio-language tasks. However, a critical challenge remains: these models often suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Itai Allouche , Joseph Keshet

In the realm of Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE), existing research primarily focuses on enhancing images globally. However, many applications require local LLIE, where users are allowed to illuminate specific regions using an input mask,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Shihurong Yao , Yizhan Huang , Xiaogang Xu

Recent studies posit that Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) primarily amplifies behaviors inherent to the pre-training distribution rather than inducing new capabilities, but these insights are predominantly limited to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Minghe Shen , Zhuo Zhi , Chonghan Liu , Shuo Xing , Zhengzhong Tu , Che Liu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP are trained on large amounts of image-text pairs, resulting in remarkable generalization across several data distributions. However, in several cases, their expensive training and data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Sravanti Addepalli , Ashish Ramayee Asokan , Lakshay Sharma , R. Venkatesh Babu

Despite the advancements made in Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs), like text Large Language Models (LLMs), they have limitations in addressing questions that require real-time information or are knowledge-intensive. Indiscriminately…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhuo Chen , Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Xinyu Geng , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Kewei Tu

With the advent of large-scale pre-trained models, interest in adapting and exploiting them for continual learning scenarios has grown. In this paper, we propose an approach to exploiting pre-trained vision-language models (e.g. CLIP) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xialei Liu , Xusheng Cao , Haori Lu , Jia-wen Xiao , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Ming-Ming Cheng

In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant strides by training on vast high-quality image-text datasets, enabling them to generally understand images well. However, the inherent difficulty in explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuanze Lin , Yunsheng Li , Dongdong Chen , Weijian Xu , Ronald Clark , Philip Torr , Lu Yuan

This paper demonstrates that a progressively aligned language model can effectively bridge frozen vision encoders and large language models (LLMs). While the fundamental architecture and pre-training methods of vision encoders and LLMs have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Junfei Xiao , Zheng Xu , Alan Yuille , Shen Yan , Boyu Wang

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) that enable Large Language Models (LLMs) to interpret images through visual instruction tuning have achieved significant success. However, existing visual instruction tuning methods only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Chi Chen , Ruoyu Qin , Fuwen Luo , Xiaoyue Mi , Peng Li , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown impressive results in sequential decision-making tasks. Meanwhile, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged, exhibiting impressive capabilities in multimodal…

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), such as GPT-4o, Gemini, LLaVA, and Flamingo, have made significant progress in integrating visual and textual modalities, excelling in tasks like visual question answering (VQA), image captioning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Junxiao Xue , Quan Deng , Fei Yu , Yanhao Wang , Jun Wang , Yuehua Li

Fine-grained image classification, the task of distinguishing between visually similar subcategories within a broader category (e.g., bird species, car models, flower types), is a challenging computer vision problem. Traditional approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Dmitry Demidov , Zaigham Zaheer , Omkar Thawakar , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan