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Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated impressive zero-shot capabilities for various downstream tasks. Their performance can be further enhanced through few-shot prompt tuning methods. However, current studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhi Zhou , Ming Yang , Jiang-Xin Shi , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

Current multi-modal object re-identification approaches based on large-scale pre-trained backbones (i.e., ViT) have displayed remarkable progress and achieved excellent performance. However, these methods usually adopt the standard full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Minghui Lin , Shu Wang , Xiang Wang , Jianhua Tang , Longbin Fu , Zhengrong Zuo , Nong Sang

In prompt tuning, a prefix or suffix text is added to the prompt, and the embeddings (soft prompts) or token indices (hard prompts) of the prefix/suffix are optimized to gain more control over language models for specific tasks. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Shouchang Guo , Sonam Damani , Keng-hao Chang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable performance across a wide range of domains, with increasing emphasis on enhancing their zero-shot generalization capabilities for unseen tasks across various modalities.…

Prompt optimization methods have demonstrated significant effectiveness in aligning black-box large language models (LLMs). In parallel, inference scaling strategies such as Best-of-N Sampling and Majority Voting have likewise been shown to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Saaduddin Mahmud , Mason Nakamura , Kyle Hollins Wray , Shlomo Zilberstein

Pre-Trained Vision-Language Models (VL-PTMs) have shown promising capabilities in grounding natural language in image data, facilitating a broad variety of cross-modal tasks. However, we note that there exists a significant gap between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Yuan Yao , Ao Zhang , Zhengyan Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu , Tat-Seng Chua , Maosong Sun

We propose a novel prompt tuning method called CoAPT(Context Attribute words in Prompt Tuning) for few/zero-shot image classification. The core motivation is that attributes are descriptive words with rich information about a given concept.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Gun Lee , Subin An , Sungyong Baik , Soochahn Lee

Prompt-based methods have achieved promising results in most few-shot text classification tasks. However, for readability assessment tasks, traditional prompt methods lackcrucial linguistic knowledge, which has already been proven to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Ziyang Wang , Sanwoo Lee , Hsiu-Yuan Huang , Yunfang Wu

Prompt tuning for vision-language models such as CLIP involves optimizing the text prompts used to generate image-text pairs for specific downstream tasks. While hand-crafted or template-based prompts are generally applicable to a wider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Qian Zhang

Most downstream adaptation methods tune all or part of the parameters of pre-trained models (PTMs) through gradient descent, where the tuning cost increases linearly with the growth of the model size. By contrast, gradient-free methods only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Tianxiang Sun , Zhengfu He , Hong Qian , Yunhua Zhou , Xuanjing Huang , Xipeng Qiu

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive success in various applications. However, these models are often not well aligned with human intents, which calls for additional treatments on them; that is, the alignment problem. To make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Jiale Cheng , Xiao Liu , Kehan Zheng , Pei Ke , Hongning Wang , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang , Minlie Huang

Prompt-based learning has been an effective paradigm for large pretrained language models (LLM), enabling few-shot or even zero-shot learning. Black-box prompt search has received growing interest recently for its distinctive properties of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Han Zhou , Xingchen Wan , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen

Classifying scanned documents is a challenging problem that involves image, layout, and text analysis for document understanding. Nevertheless, for certain benchmark datasets, notably RVL-CDIP, the state of the art is closing in to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Anna Scius-Bertrand , Michael Jungo , Lars Vögtlin , Jean-Marc Spat , Andreas Fischer

We introduce Scaffold Prompt Tuning (ScaPT), a novel prompt-based framework for adapting large-scale functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) pre-trained models to downstream tasks, with high parameter efficiency and improved…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-21 Zijian Dong , Yilei Wu , Zijiao Chen , Yichi Zhang , Yueming Jin , Juan Helen Zhou

Continuous prompt search offers a computationally efficient alternative to conventional parameter tuning in natural language processing tasks. Nevertheless, its practical effectiveness can be significantly hindered by the black-box nature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yu Cai , Canxi Huang , Xiaoyu He

Despite the great promise of Prompt Tuning (PT) in adapting large Vision-Language Pretrained Models (VLPMs) to downstream tasks, they often struggle to overcome the Base-New Tradeoff (BNT) dilemma: as VLPMs are better tuned to a base task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ji Zhang , Shihan Wu , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Nicu Sebe , Heng Tao Shen

A prompt is a sequence of symbol or tokens, selected from a vocabulary according to some rule, which is prepended/concatenated to a textual query. A key problem is how to select the sequence of tokens: in this paper we formulate it as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Antonio Sabbatella , Andrea Ponti , Antonio Candelieri , Ilaria Giordani , Francesco Archetti

Prompt-tuning has emerged as a promising method for adapting pre-trained models to downstream tasks or aligning with human preferences. Prompt learning is widely used in NLP but has limited applicability to RL due to the complex physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Shengchao Hu , Li Shen , Ya Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Prompt tuning has shown promising results, but its robustness and generalization to unseen categories remain limited. Through our experiments, we demonstrate that the complete removal of semantic noise is a key factor restricting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yansheng Gao , Yufei Zheng , Shengsheng Wang

Large-scale pretrained vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot image classification capabilities across diverse domains. To enhance CLIP's performance while preserving the zero-shot paradigm, various…

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