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Transductive few-shot learning has triggered an abundant literature focusing on vision-only models, but is still at a nascent stage within the recent context of foundational vision-language models (VLMs). Only a few recent methods addressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ghassen Baklouti , Maxime Zanella , Ismail Ben Ayed

Vision-language foundation models such as CLIP have shown impressive zero-shot performance on many tasks and datasets, especially thanks to their free-text inputs. However, they struggle to handle some downstream tasks, such as fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Denis Coquenet , Clément Rambour , Emanuele Dalsasso , Nicolas Thome

Prompt learning represents a promising method for adapting pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) to various downstream tasks by learning a set of text embeddings. One challenge inherent to these methods is the poor generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Fangming Cui , Xun Yang , Chao Wu , Liang Xiao , Xinmei Tian

Vision-language pre-training like CLIP has shown promising performance on various downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification and image-text retrieval. Most of the existing CLIP-alike works usually adopt relatively large image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ying Nie , Wei He , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Tianyu Guo , Fanyi Du , Yunhe Wang

In recent years, the upstream of Large Language Models (LLM) has also encouraged the computer vision community to work on substantial multimodal datasets and train models on a scale in a self-/semi-supervised manner, resulting in Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Keno Moenck , Duc Trung Thieu , Julian Koch , Thorsten Schüppstuhl

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) has attained great success in pattern recognition and computer vision. Transferring CLIP to downstream tasks (e.g. zero- or few-shot classification) is a hot topic in multimodal learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhipeng Ye , Feng Jiang , Qiufeng Wang , Kaizhu Huang , Jiaqi Huang

Zero-shot action recognition requires a strong ability to generalize from pre-training and seen classes to novel unseen classes. Similarly, continual learning aims to develop models that can generalize effectively and learn new tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shreyank N Gowda , Davide Moltisanti , Laura Sevilla-Lara

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

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has shown powerful zero-shot learning performance. Few-shot learning aims to further enhance the transfer capability of CLIP by giving few images in each class, aka 'few shots'. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yaohui Li , Qifeng Zhou , Haoxing Chen , Jianbing Zhang , Xinyu Dai , Hao Zhou

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) represents a cutting-edge paradigm within the broader scope of machine learning, designed to empower models with the ability to assimilate new classes of data with limited examples while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Marinela Adam

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) defines a practical but challenging task where models are required to continuously learn novel concepts with only a few training samples. Due to data scarcity, existing FSCIL methods resort to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Chengyan Liu , Linglan Zhao , Fan Lyu , Kaile Du , Fuyuan Hu , Tao Zhou

The popularity of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has propelled its application to diverse downstream vision tasks. To improve its capacity on downstream tasks, few-shot learning has become a widely-adopted technique.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Xiangyang Zhu , Renrui Zhang , Bowei He , Aojun Zhou , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao , Peng Gao

The Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model has been widely used in various downstream vision tasks. The few-shot learning paradigm has been widely adopted to augment its capacity for these tasks. However, current paradigms may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jintao Rong , Hao Chen , Linlin Ou , Tianxiao Chen , Xinyi Yu , Yifan Liu

Pretrained large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP have demonstrated excellent generalizability over a series of downstream tasks. However, they are sensitive to the variation of input text prompts and need a selection of prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Lianyu Hu , Liqing Gao , Zekang Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Wei Feng

Incremental Learning (IL) aims to accumulate knowledge from sequential input tasks while overcoming catastrophic forgetting. Existing IL methods typically assume that an incoming task has only increments of classes or domains, referred to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Min-Yeong Park , Jae-Ho Lee , Gyeong-Moon Park

The ability to continuously expand knowledge over time and utilize it to rapidly generalize to new tasks is a key feature of human linguistic intelligence. Existing models that pursue rapid generalization to new tasks (e.g., few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Xisen Jin , Bill Yuchen Lin , Mohammad Rostami , Xiang Ren

State-of-the-art Vision-Language Models (VLMs) ground the vision and the language modality primarily via projecting the vision tokens from the encoder to language-like tokens, which are directly fed to the Large Language Model (LLM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Sivan Doveh , Shaked Perek , M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Wei Lin , Amit Alfassy , Assaf Arbelle , Shimon Ullman , Leonid Karlinsky

While vision-language pre-trained models (VL-PTMs) have advanced multimodal research in recent years, their mastery in a few languages like English restricts their applicability in broader communities. To this end, there is an increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Bang Yang , Yong Dai , Xuxin Cheng , Yaowei Li , Asif Raza , Yuexian Zou

Contrastive pre-training on image-text pairs, exemplified by CLIP, becomes a standard technique for learning multi-modal visual-language representations. Although CLIP has demonstrated remarkable performance, training it from scratch on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jihao Liu , Jinliang Zheng , Boxiao Liu , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

Despite the recent success of image-text contrastive models like CLIP and SigLIP, these models often struggle with vision-centric tasks that demand high-fidelity image understanding, such as counting, depth estimation, and fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zineng Tang , Long Lian , Seun Eisape , XuDong Wang , Roei Herzig , Adam Yala , Alane Suhr , Trevor Darrell , David M. Chan