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Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, play a foundational role in various cross-modal applications. To fully leverage VLMs' potential in adapting to downstream tasks, context optimization methods like Prompt Tuning are essential.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Enming Zhang , Bingke Zhu , Yingying Chen , Qinghai Miao , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Pre-trained vision-language models such as CLIP exhibit strong transferability, yet adapting them to downstream image classification tasks under limited annotation budgets remains challenging. In active learning settings, the model must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Qian-Wei Wang , Yaguang Song , Shu-Tao Xia

Medical vision-language pre-training (VLP) offers significant potential for advancing medical image understanding by leveraging paired image-report data. However, existing methods are limited by Fa}lse Negatives (FaNe) induced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Peng Zhang , Zhihui Lai , Wenting Chen , Xu Wu , Heng Kong

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been a celebrated method for training vision encoders to generate image/text representations facilitating various applications. Recently, CLIP has been widely adopted as the vision backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Hong-You Chen , Zhengfeng Lai , Haotian Zhang , Xinze Wang , Marcin Eichner , Keen You , Meng Cao , Bowen Zhang , Yinfei Yang , Zhe Gan

We investigate the impact of entropy change in deep learning systems by noise injection at different levels, including the embedding space and the image. The series of models that employ our methodology are collectively known as Noisy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xiaowei Yu , Zhe Huang , Minheng Chen , Lu Zhang , Tianming Liu , Dajiang Zhu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has achieved excellent performance over a wide range of tasks. However, the effectiveness of CLIP heavily relies on a substantial corpus of pre-training data, resulting in notable consumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Kaicheng Yang , Tiancheng Gu , Xiang An , Haiqiang Jiang , Xiangzi Dai , Ziyong Feng , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng

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

CLIP has become a cornerstone of multimodal representation learning, yet improving its performance typically requires a prohibitively costly process of training from scratch on billions of samples. We ask a different question: Can we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Anant Mehta , Xiyuan Wei , Xingyu Chen , Tianbao Yang

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) has advanced the performance for many vision-language tasks. However, most existing pre-trained models only excel in either understanding-based tasks or generation-based tasks. Furthermore, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Junnan Li , Dongxu Li , Caiming Xiong , Steven Hoi

Despite their impressive zero-shot abilities, vision-language models such as CLIP have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks. To enhance its adversarial robustness, recent studies finetune the pretrained vision encoder of CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Songlong Xing , Weijie Wang , Zhengyu Zhao , Jindong Gu , Philip Torr , Nicu Sebe

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

Adopting contrastive image-text pretrained models like CLIP towards video classification has gained attention due to its cost-effectiveness and competitive performance. However, recent works in this area face a trade-off. Finetuning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Syed Talal Wasim , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) achieves strong generalization in vision-language tasks by aligning images and texts in a shared embedding space. However, recent findings show that CLIP-like models still underutilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Weiheng Zhao , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Xinggang Wang

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

Pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have recently shown superior performances on various downstream tasks, including image classification and segmentation. However, in fine-grained image re-identification (ReID), the labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Siyuan Li , Li Sun , Qingli Li

We introduce a noisy channel approach for language model prompting in few-shot text classification. Instead of computing the likelihood of the label given the input (referred as direct models), channel models compute the conditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Sewon Min , Mike Lewis , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Luke Zettlemoyer

Vision-language models such as CLIP have shown impressive capabilities in encoding texts and images into aligned embeddings, enabling the retrieval of multimodal data in a shared embedding space. However, these embedding-based models still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Timothy Ossowski , Ming Jiang , Junjie Hu

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has emerged as a novel paradigm to learn visual models from language supervision. While researchers continue to push the frontier of CLIP, reproducing these works remains challenging. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Yufeng Cui , Lichen Zhao , Feng Liang , Yangguang Li , Jing Shao

Fine-grained entity typing (FET) is an essential task in natural language processing that aims to assign semantic types to entities in text. However, FET poses a major challenge known as the noise labeling problem, whereby current methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Minghao Tang , Yongquan He , Yongxiu Xu , Hongbo Xu , Wenyuan Zhang , Yang Lin

CLIP exhibits strong visual-textual alignment but struggle with open-vocabulary segmentation due to poor localization. Prior methods enhance spatial coherence by modifying intermediate attention. But, this coherence isn't consistently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zhixiang Chi , Yanan Wu , Li Gu , Huan Liu , Ziqiang Wang , Yang Zhang , Yang Wang , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis