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This letter studies distributed stochastic optimization over a peer-to-peer network when agents can query only zeroth-order function values. We propose ZOOM-PB, a coordinate-sampling distributed zeroth-order method equipped with a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Shengjun Zhang , Tingyi Liu , Heng Zhang , Dong Xie

Pre-trained Vision-Language (VL) models such as CLIP have demonstrated their excellent performance across numerous downstream tasks. A recent method, Context Optimization (CoOp), further improves the performance of VL models on downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Biao Liu , Wenyi Fang , Xiaoyu Wu , Yang Zheng , Zheng Hu , Bo Yuan

The current modus operandi in adapting pre-trained models involves updating all the backbone parameters, ie, full fine-tuning. This paper introduces Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) as an efficient and effective alternative to full fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Menglin Jia , Luming Tang , Bor-Chun Chen , Claire Cardie , Serge Belongie , Bharath Hariharan , Ser-Nam Lim

Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) has proven effective for a variety of downstream tasks. However, as LLMs grow in size, the memory demands for backpropagation become increasingly prohibitive. Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ziming Yu , Pan Zhou , Sike Wang , Jia Li , Mi Tian , Hua Huang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved significant zero-shot performance on downstream tasks with various fine-tuning adaptation methods. However, recent studies have proven that adversarial attacks can significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jia-Wei Hai , Yijun Wang , Xiu-Shen Wei

Test-time prompt tuning for vision-language models has demonstrated impressive generalization capabilities under zero-shot settings. However, tuning the learnable prompts solely based on unlabeled test data may induce prompt optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Fei Song , Yi Li , Rui Wang , Jiahuan Zhou , Changwen Zheng , Jiangmeng Li

Training or finetuning large-scale language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 requires substantial computation resources, motivating recent efforts to explore parameter-efficient adaptation to downstream tasks. One practical area of research is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Danqing Luo , Chen Zhang , Jiahui Xu , Bin Wang , Yiming Chen , Yan Zhang , Haizhou Li

We investigate the efficacy of visual prompting to adapt large-scale models in vision. Following the recent approach from prompt tuning and adversarial reprogramming, we learn a single image perturbation such that a frozen model prompted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Hyojin Bahng , Ali Jahanian , Swami Sankaranarayanan , Phillip Isola

Visual Question Answering is a challenging task, as it requires seamless interaction between perceptual, linguistic, and background knowledge systems. While the recent progress of visual and natural language models like BLIP has led to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jiarui Zhang , Mahyar Khayatkhoei , Prateek Chhikara , Filip Ilievski

In recent years, various large foundation models have been proposed for image segmentation. There models are often trained on large amounts of data corresponding to general computer vision tasks. Hence, these models do not perform well on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jay N. Paranjape , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

While pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP exhibit impressive representational capabilities for multimodal data, recent studies have revealed their vulnerability to backdoor attacks. To alleviate the threat, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiawei Kong , Hao Fang , Sihang Guo , Chenxi Qing , Kuofeng Gao , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Ke Xu

In deep learning, test-time adaptation has gained attention as a method for model fine-tuning without the need for labeled data. A prime exemplification is the recently proposed test-time prompt tuning for large-scale vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hee Suk Yoon , Eunseop Yoon , Joshua Tian Jin Tee , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Yingzhen Li , Chang D. Yoo

Bin-picking is a practical and challenging robotic manipulation task, where accurate 6D pose estimation plays a pivotal role. The workpieces in bin-picking are typically textureless and randomly stacked in a bin, which poses a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jianqiu Chen , Zikun Zhou , Xin Li , Ye Zheng , Tianpeng Bao , Zhenyu He

Language Models are extremely susceptible to performance collapse with even small changes to input prompt strings. Libraries such as DSpy (from Stanford NLP) avoid this problem through demonstration-based prompt optimisation. Inspired by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Maanas Taneja

In this work, we explore "prompt tuning", a simple yet effective mechanism for learning "soft prompts" to condition frozen language models to perform specific downstream tasks. Unlike the discrete text prompts used by GPT-3, soft prompts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Brian Lester , Rami Al-Rfou , Noah Constant

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have significantly advanced zero-shot image recognition. However, their performance remains limited by suboptimal prompt engineering and poor adaptability to target classes. While recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hui Liu , Kecheng Chen , Jialiang Wang , Xianming Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative techniques for solving inverse problems. Despite their success in a variety of inverse problems in imaging, these models require many steps to converge, leading to slow inference time.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Mehmet Akçakaya

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), e.g., CLIP, learn broad visual concepts from tedious training data, showing superb generalization ability. Amount of prompt learning methods have been proposed to efficiently adapt the VLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Hongyu Hu , Tiancheng Lin , Jie Wang , Zhenbang Sun , Yi Xu

Prompt tuning is a parameter-efficient way to deploy large-scale pre-trained models to downstream tasks by adding task-specific tokens. In terms of vision-language pre-trained (VLP) models, prompt tuning often requires a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Qiong Wu , Shubin Huang , Yiyi Zhou , Pingyang Dai , Annan Shu , Guannan Jiang , Rongrong Ji

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