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Derivative-free prompt learning has emerged as a lightweight alternative to prompt tuning, which only requires model inference to optimize the prompts. However, existing work did not take full advantage of the over-parameterized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yekun Chai , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hao Tian , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Pre-trained vision-language models are able to interpret visual concepts and language semantics. Prompt learning, a method of constructing prompts for text encoders or image encoders, elicits the potentials of pre-trained models and readily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zhenhan Huang , Tejaswini Pedapati , Pin-Yu Chen , Jianxi Gao

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable generalization in zero- and few-shot settings, but adapting them efficiently to decentralized, heterogeneous data remains a challenge. While prompt tuning has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Sajjad Ghiasvand , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

The pre-trained foundation models (PFMs) have become essential for facilitating large-scale multimodal learning. Researchers have effectively employed the ``pre-train, prompt, and predict'' paradigm through prompt learning to induce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Xiang Chen , Yixin Ou , Quan Feng , Lei Li , Piji Li , Haibo Ye , Sheng-Jun Huang , Shuofei Qiao , Shumin Deng , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Federated continual learning (FCL) aims to learn from sequential data stream in the decentralized federated learning setting, while simultaneously mitigating the catastrophic forgetting issue in classical continual learning. Existing FCL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yuchen He , Chuyun Shen , Xiangfeng Wang , Bo Jin

Foundational image-language models have generated considerable interest due to their efficient adaptation to downstream tasks by prompt learning. Prompt learning treats part of the language model input as trainable while freezing the rest,…

Existing vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP have showcased an impressive capability to generalize well across various downstream tasks. These models leverage the synergy between visual and textual information, enabling them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Fangming Cui , Yonggang Zhang , Xuan Wang , Xule Wang , Liang Xiao

The In-Context Learning (ICL) is to understand a new task via a few demonstrations (aka. prompt) and predict new inputs without tuning the models. While it has been widely studied in NLP, it is still a relatively new area of research in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yanpeng Sun , Qiang Chen , Xiaofan Li , Jian Wang , Jingdong Wang , Zechao Li

Generalized zero-shot learning aims to recognize both seen and unseen classes with the help of semantic information that is shared among different classes. It inevitably requires consistent visual-semantic alignment. Existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Huajie Jiang , Zhengxian Li , Xiaohan Yu , Yongli Hu , Baocai Yin , Jian Yang , Yuankai Qi

We investigate whether prompts learned independently for different tasks can be later combined through prompt algebra to obtain a model that supports composition of tasks. We consider Visual Language Models (VLM) with prompt tuning as our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Pramuditha Perera , Matthew Trager , Luca Zancato , Alessandro Achille , Stefano Soatto

Prompt learning is a new learning paradigm which reformulates downstream tasks as similar pretraining tasks on pretrained models by leveraging textual prompts. Recent works have demonstrated that prompt learning is particularly useful for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yue Zhang , Hongliang Fei , Dingcheng Li , Tan Yu , Ping Li

Large pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have shown great potential in learning representations that are transferable across a wide range of downstream tasks. Different from the traditional representation learning that is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Kaiyang Zhou , Jingkang Yang , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

Recently pre-trained Foundation Models (FMs) have been combined with Federated Learning (FL) to improve training of downstream tasks while preserving privacy. However, deploying FMs over edge networks with resource-constrained Internet of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 S. Kawa Atapour , S. Jamal SeyedMohammadi , S. Mohammad Sheikholeslami , Jamshid Abouei , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Arash Mohammadi

Federated Learning (FL) is a framework which enables distributed model training using a large corpus of decentralized training data. Existing methods aggregate models disregarding their internal representations, which are crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Umberto Michieli , Mete Ozay

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that allows several clients to learn a global model without sharing their private data. In this paper, we generalize a primal dual fixed point (PDFP) \cite{PDFP} method to federated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Ya-Nan Zhu , Jingwei Liang , Xiaoqun Zhang

Federated learning is a communication-efficient training process that alternates between local training at the edge devices and averaging the updated local model at the central server. Nevertheless, it is impractical to achieve a perfect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Fan Ang , Li Chen , Nan Zhao , Yunfei Chen , Weidong Wang , F. Richard Yu

In computer vision, fine-tuning is the de-facto approach to leverage pre-trained vision models to perform downstream tasks. However, deploying it in practice is quite challenging, due to adopting parameter inefficient global update and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Xing Nie , Bolin Ni , Jianlong Chang , Gaomeng Meng , Chunlei Huo , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Qi Tian , Chunhong Pan

Federated continual learning (FCL) learns incremental tasks over time from confidential datasets distributed across clients. This paper focuses on rehearsal-free FCL, which has severe forgetting issues when learning new tasks due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Gaurav Bagwe , Xiaoyong Yuan , Miao Pan , Lan Zhang

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model has exhibited remarkable efficacy in establishing cross-modal connections between texts and images, yielding impressive performance across a broad spectrum of downstream applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yi Zhang , Ce Zhang , Ke Yu , Yushun Tang , Zhihai He

It has been demonstrated that the art of prompt tuning is highly effective in efficiently extracting knowledge from pretrained foundation models, encompassing pretrained language models (PLMs), vision pretrained models, and vision-language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Xianjun Yang , Wei Cheng , Xujiang Zhao , Wenchao Yu , Linda Petzold , Haifeng Chen