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Contrastive vision-language models continue to be the dominant approach for image and text retrieval. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) trains two neural networks in contrastive manner to align their image and text embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kwun Ho Ngan , Saman Sadeghi Afgeh , Joe Townsend , Artur d'Avila Garcez

In this paper, we demonstrate that CLIP can also be adapted to downstream tasks where its vision-language alignment is suboptimally learned during pre-training on web-crawled data, all without requiring fine-tuning. We explore the case of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Sohee Kim , Jisu Kang , Dunam Kim , Seokju Lee

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) models have demonstrated considerable success across various vision-language tasks, such as text-to-image retrieval, where the model is required to effectively process natural language input to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Hyunjae Kim , Seunghyun Yoon , Trung Bui , Handong Zhao , Quan Tran , Franck Dernoncourt , Jaewoo Kang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) learns rich representations via readily available supervision of natural language. It improves the performance of downstream vision tasks, including but not limited to the zero-shot, long tail,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yi Li , Hualiang Wang , Yiqun Duan , Hang Xu , Xiaomeng Li

Human-centric visual analysis plays a pivotal role in diverse applications, including surveillance, healthcare, and human-computer interaction. With the emergence of large-scale unlabeled human image datasets, there is an increasing need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingshuang Luo , Ruibing Hou , Bo Chao , Hong Chang , Zimo Liu , Yaowei Wang , Shiguang Shan

Recent research suggested that the embeddings produced by CLIP-like contrastive language-image training are suboptimal for image-only tasks. The main theory is that the inter-modal (language-image) alignment loss ignores intra-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jonas Herzog , Yue Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a foundation model and has been applied to various vision and multimodal tasks. However, recent works indicate that CLIP falls short in distinguishing detailed differences in images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yinqi Li , Jiahe Zhao , Hong Chang , Ruibing Hou , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Model reprogramming adapts pretrained models to downstream tasks by modifying only the input and output spaces. Visual reprogramming (VR) is one instance for vision tasks that adds a trainable noise pattern (i.e., a visual prompt) to input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chengyi Cai , Zesheng Ye , Lei Feng , Jianzhong Qi , Feng Liu

During the preceding biennium, vision-language pre-training has achieved noteworthy success on several downstream tasks. Nevertheless, acquiring high-quality image-text pairs, where the pairs are entirely exclusive of each other, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yuting Gao , Jinfeng Liu , Zihan Xu , Tong Wu Enwei Zhang , Wei Liu , Jie Yang , Ke Li , Xing Sun

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities and can quickly adapt to downstream tasks through prompt fine-tuning. Unfortunately, in classification tasks involving non-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Song-Lin Lv , Yu-Yang Chen , Zhi Zhou , Yu-Feng Li , Lan-Zhe Guo

Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training, known as CLIP, has shown promising effectiveness in addressing downstream image recognition tasks. However, recent works revealed that the CLIP model can be implanted with a downstream-oriented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Jiawang Bai , Kuofeng Gao , Shaobo Min , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has achieved remarkable success, but its performance can degrade when fine-tuned in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. We model the prediction process using a Structural Causal Model (SCM) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zeen Song , Siyu Zhao , Xingyu Zhang , Jiangmeng Li , Changwen Zheng , Wenwen Qiang

Recently, the strong generalization ability of CLIP has facilitated open-vocabulary semantic segmentation, which labels pixels using arbitrary text. However, existing methods that fine-tune CLIP for segmentation on limited seen categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Muyao Yuan , Yuanhong Zhang , Weizhan Zhang , Lan Ma , Yuan Gao , Jiangyong Ying , Yudeng Xin

Misalignment between model predictions and intended usage can be detrimental for the deployment of computer vision models. The issue is exacerbated when the task involves complex structured outputs, as it becomes harder to design procedures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 André Susano Pinto , Alexander Kolesnikov , Yuge Shi , Lucas Beyer , Xiaohua Zhai

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-trained (CLIP) models have zero-shot ability of classifying an image belonging to "[CLASS]" by using similarity between the image and the prompt sentence "a [CONTEXT] of [CLASS]". Based on exhaustive text cues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xiaofeng Mao , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaojun Jia , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue , Zhao Li

Vision-language models like CLIP show impressive ability to align images and text, but their training on short, concise captions makes them struggle with lengthy, detailed descriptions. Recent advances mitigate this challenge by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chau Truong , Hieu Ta Quang , Dung D. Le

In this paper, we introduce DetailCLIP: A Detail-Oriented CLIP to address the limitations of contrastive learning-based vision-language models, particularly CLIP, in handling detail-oriented and fine-grained tasks like segmentation. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Kishore Prakash Sailaja , Ali Alilooee , Ser-Nam Lim , Rajiv Ramnath

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in downstream tasks that require quantitative concepts such as facial age estimation and image quality assessment, enabling VLMs to explore applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Wei-Hsiang Yu , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yi-Hsuan Tsai

Pre-trained vision-language (V-L) models such as CLIP have shown excellent generalization ability to downstream tasks. However, they are sensitive to the choice of input text prompts and require careful selection of prompt templates to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Hanoona Rasheed , Muhammad Maaz , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Multilingual vision-language models exhibit systematic performance gaps across languages, but the mechanism remains ambiguous: cross-language divergence could arise from the visual encoder, the text branch, or their interaction. We resolve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 J. de Curtò , Mauro Liz , I. de Zarzà