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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), a simple yet effective pre-training paradigm, successfully introduces text supervision to vision models. It has shown promising results across various tasks due to its generalizability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zihao Zhao , Yuxiao Liu , Han Wu , Mei Wang , Yonghao Li , Sheng Wang , Lin Teng , Disheng Liu , Zhiming Cui , Qian Wang , Dinggang Shen

Domain Generalization (DG) aims to learn a model from multiple source domains to achieve satisfactory performance on unseen target domains. Recent works introduce CLIP to DG tasks due to its superior image-text alignment and zeros-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yingfan Wang , Guoliang Kang

Distribution shifts between training and testing samples frequently occur in practice and impede model generalization performance. This crucial challenge thereby motivates studies on domain generalization (DG), which aim to predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Tianxin Wei , Yifan Chen , Xinrui He , Wenxuan Bao , Jingrui He

Domain generalization aims to apply knowledge gained from multiple labeled source domains to unseen target domains. The main difficulty comes from the dataset bias: training data and test data have different distributions, and the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Ya Li , Mingming Gong , Xinmei Tian , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao

Contrastive vision-language models like CLIP are used for a large variety of applications, such as zero-shot classification or as vision encoder for multi-modal models. Despite their popularity, their representations show major limitations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Bijay Gurung , David T. Hoffmann , Thomas Brox

This paper, for the first time, marries large foundation models with human sketch understanding. We demonstrate what this brings -- a paradigm shift in terms of generalised sketch representation learning (e.g., classification). This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Hmrishav Bandyopadhyay , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Aneeshan Sain , Subhadeep Koley , Tao Xiang , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yi-Zhe Song

Prompt learning is a powerful technique for transferring Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP to downstream tasks. However, the prompt-based methods that are fine-tuned solely with base classes may struggle to generalize to novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Mushui Liu , Weijie He , Ziqian Lu , Yunlong Yu

Unsupervised domain adaption (UDA) has emerged as a popular solution to tackle the divergence between the labeled source and unlabeled target domains. Recently, some research efforts have been made to leverage large vision-language models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Jinjing Zhu , Yucheng Chen , Lin Wang

Gaze estimation methods often experience significant performance degradation when evaluated across different domains, due to the domain gap between the testing and training data. Existing methods try to address this issue using various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Pengwei Yin , Guanzhong Zeng , Jingjing Wang , Di Xie

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) delivers strong cross modal generalization by aligning images and texts in a shared embedding space, yet it persistently fails at compositional reasoning over objects, attributes, and relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Ziliang Chen , Tianang Xiao , Jusheng Zhang , Yongsen Zheng , Xipeng Chen

This work generalizes the problem of unsupervised domain generalization to the case in which no labeled samples are available (completely unsupervised). We are given unlabeled samples from multiple source domains, and we aim to learn a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Amit Rozner , Barak Battash , Lior Wolf , Ofir Lindenbaum

Real-world applications of machine learning models often confront data distribution shifts, wherein discrepancies exist between the training and test data distributions. In the common multi-domain multi-class setup, as the number of classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Haoxiang Wang , Haozhe Si , Huajie Shao , Han Zhao

Foundations models are presented as generalists that often perform well over a myriad of tasks. Fine-tuning these models, even on limited data, provides an additional boost in task-specific performance but often at the cost of their wider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Laura Niss , Kevin Vogt-Lowell , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis

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

The Visual Language Model, known for its robust cross-modal capabilities, has been extensively applied in various computer vision tasks. In this paper, we explore the use of CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining), a vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Huazhong Zhao , Lei Qi , Xin Geng

Domain Generalization aims to develop models that can generalize to novel and unseen data distributions. In this work, we study how model architectures and pre-training objectives impact feature richness and propose a method to effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Xavier Thomas , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Pre-training vision-language models with contrastive objectives has shown promising results that are both scalable to large uncurated datasets and transferable to many downstream applications. Some following works have targeted to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Janghyeon Lee , Jongsuk Kim , Hyounguk Shon , Bumsoo Kim , Seung Hwan Kim , Honglak Lee , Junmo Kim

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities across multiple challenging distribution shifts. However, there is still much to be explored in terms of their robustness to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Weijie Tu , Weijian Deng , Tom Gedeon

Domain generalization is the problem of machine learning when the training data and the test data come from different data domains. We present a simple theoretical model of learning to generalize across domains in which there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Vikas K. Garg , Adam Kalai , Katrina Ligett , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Change detection is widely applied in remote sensing image analysis. Existing methods require training models separately for each dataset, which leads to poor domain generalization. Moreover, these methods rely heavily on large amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Qiangang Du , Jinlong Peng , Xu Chen , Qingdong He , Liren He , Qiang Nie , Wenbing Zhu , Mingmin Chi , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang