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In this paper, we propose a new method to enhance compositional understanding in pre-trained vision and language models (VLMs) without sacrificing performance in zero-shot multi-modal tasks. Traditional fine-tuning approaches often improve…

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Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP are trained via contrastive learning between text and image pairs, resulting in aligned image and text embeddings that are useful for many downstream tasks. A notable drawback of CLIP, however, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dylan Sam , Devin Willmott , Joao D. Semedo , J. Zico Kolter

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

Vision-language pretraining models have achieved great success in supporting multimedia applications by understanding the alignments between images and text. While existing vision-language pretraining models primarily focus on understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Fuxiao Liu , Hao Tan , Chris Tensmeyer

Large-scale vision-language pre-training has achieved significant performance in multi-modal understanding and generation tasks. However, existing methods often perform poorly on image-text matching tasks that require structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yufeng Huang , Jiji Tang , Zhuo Chen , Rongsheng Zhang , Xinfeng Zhang , Weijie Chen , Zeng Zhao , Zhou Zhao , Tangjie Lv , Zhipeng Hu , Wen Zhang

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

Human motion generation is essential for fields such as animation, robotics, and virtual reality, requiring models that effectively capture motion dynamics from text descriptions. Existing approaches often rely on Contrastive Language-Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Gabriel Maldonado , Armin Danesh Pazho , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Vinit Katariya , Hamed Tabkhi

Contrastive language image pre-training (CLIP) is an essential component of building modern vision-language foundation models. While CLIP demonstrates remarkable zero-shot performance on downstream tasks, the multi-modal feature spaces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Dewei Feng , Sekitoshi Kanai , Kazuki Adachi , Daiki Chijiwa

Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP excel in general multimodal comprehension but often struggle to capture nuanced, context-dependent visual cues. This makes it difficult to distinguish between similar-looking concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yuchen Huang , Zhiyuan Fan , Zhitao He , Sandeep Polisetty , Wenyan Li , Yi R. Fung

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

Vision-language models such as CLIP are capable of mapping the different modality data into a unified feature space, enabling zero/few-shot inference by measuring the similarity of given images and texts. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xingyu Zhu , Beier Zhu , Yi Tan , Shuo Wang , Yanbin Hao , Hanwang Zhang

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) trained via contrastive learning have achieved notable success in natural image tasks. However, their application in the medical domain remains limited due to the scarcity of openly accessible, large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Shahina Kunhimon , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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

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

Though the success of CLIP-based training recipes in vision-language models, their scalability to more modalities (e.g., 3D, audio, etc.) is limited to large-scale data, which is expensive or even inapplicable for rare modalities. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Weixian Lei , Yixiao Ge , Jianfeng Zhang , Dylan Sun , Kun Yi , Ying Shan , Mike Zheng Shou

Continual learning (CL) empowers pre-trained vision-language models to adapt effectively to novel or previously underrepresented data distributions without comprehensive retraining, enhancing their adaptability and efficiency. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zhiyuan Wang , Bokui Chen

We present modality gap, an intriguing geometric phenomenon of the representation space of multi-modal models. Specifically, we show that different data modalities (e.g. images and text) are embedded at arm's length in their shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Weixin Liang , Yuhui Zhang , Yongchan Kwon , Serena Yeung , James Zou

Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) has achieved remarkable success across various downstream tasks, but such gains are largely driven by scaling up on training data. Yet, literature methods treat image-text pairs as isolated training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Wenbo Lu

Contrastive learning has become a standard approach for unsupervised learning from paired data, as demonstrated by CLIP for image-text matching. However, many domains involve more than two modalities and require objectives that capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tillmann Rheude , Stefan Hegselmann , Roland Eils , Benjamin Wild