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Persona prompting is widely used to steer large language models, yet its practical value remains unclear. Prior work often evaluates persona prompting using aggregate scores, making it difficult to determine whether expert-role prompting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shuai Xiao , Su Liu , Weikai Zhou , Jialun Wu , Xinjie He , Zhiyuan Lin , Qiyang Xie

Despite recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) models, they often fail to faithfully render all elements of complex prompts, frequently omitting or misrepresenting specific objects and attributes. Test-time optimization has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mohammad Hossein Sameti , Amir M. Mansourian , Arash Marioriyad , Soheil Fadaee Oshyani , Mohammad Hossein Rohban , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Visual prompt-based methods have seen growing interest in incremental learning (IL) for image classification. These approaches learn additional embedding vectors while keeping the model frozen, making them efficient to train. However, no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Matthias Neuwirth-Trapp , Maarten Bieshaar , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Many of the existing methods for learning joint embedding of images and text use only supervised information from paired images and its textual attributes. Taking advantage of the recent success of unsupervised learning in deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Liang-Kang Huang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

We consider the problem of composed image retrieval that takes an input query consisting of an image and a modification text indicating the desired changes to be made on the image and retrieves images that match these changes. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Prateksha Udhayanan , Srikrishna Karanam , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Recent advancements in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-fidelity images. However, these models often struggle to faithfully render complex user prompts, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Linqing Wang , Ximing Xing , Yiji Cheng , Zhiyuan Zhao , Donghao Li , Tiankai Hang , Jiale Tao , Qixun Wang , Ruihuang Li , Comi Chen , Xin Li , Mingrui Wu , Xinchi Deng , Shuyang Gu , Chunyu Wang , Qinglin Lu

This paper presents a novel method to enhance the reliability of image classification models during deployment in the face of transient hardware errors. By utilizing enriched text embeddings derived from GPT-3 with question prompts per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Syed Talal Wasim , Kabila Haile Soboka , Abdulrahman Mahmoud , Salman Khan , David Brooks , Gu-Yeon Wei

Prompt engineering is a powerful tool used to enhance the performance of pre-trained models on downstream tasks. For example, providing the prompt "Let's think step by step" improved GPT-3's reasoning accuracy to 63% on MutiArith while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Cheng Shi , Sibei Yang

Image restoration, which aims to retrieve and enhance degraded images, is fundamental across a wide range of applications. While conventional deep learning approaches have notably improved the image quality across various tasks, they still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Zilong Li , Yiming Lei , Chenglong Ma , Junping Zhang , Hongming Shan

Multimodal pre-trained models, such as CLIP, are popular for zero-shot classification due to their open-vocabulary flexibility and high performance. However, vision-language models, which compute similarity scores between images and class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mia Chiquier , Utkarsh Mall , Carl Vondrick

Text-to-image generative models often reflect the biases of the training data, leading to unequal representations of underrepresented groups. This study investigates inclusive text-to-image generative models that generate images based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Cheng Zhang , Xuanbai Chen , Siqi Chai , Chen Henry Wu , Dmitry Lagun , Thabo Beeler , Fernando De la Torre

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) encounter two key issues in multi-image contexts: (1) a lack of fine-grained perception across disparate images, and (2) a diminished capability to effectively reason over and synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Kuei-Chun Kao , Hsu Tzu-Yin , Yunqi Hong , Ruochen Wang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Learning high-quality embeddings for rare words is a hard problem because of sparse context information. Mimicking (Pinter et al., 2017) has been proposed as a solution: given embeddings learned by a standard algorithm, a model is first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Timo Schick , Hinrich Schütze

In this study, we investigate the task of data pre-selection, which aims to select instances for labeling from an unlabeled dataset through a single pass, thereby optimizing performance for undefined downstream tasks with a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Xin Li , Sima Behpour , Thang Doan , Wenbin He , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

Text-to-image generation has recently seen remarkable success, granting users with the ability to create high-quality images through the use of text. However, contemporary methods face challenges in capturing the precise semantics conveyed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shay Shomer-Chai , Wenxuan Peng , Bharath Hariharan , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Despite recent progress in text-to-image (T2I) generation, existing models often struggle to faithfully capture user intentions from short and under-specified prompts. While prior work has attempted to enhance prompts using large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Mingrui Wu , Lu Wang , Pu Zhao , Fangkai Yang , Jianjin Zhang , Jianfeng Liu , Yuefeng Zhan , Weihao Han , Hao Sun , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Qingwei Lin , Weiwei Deng , Dongmei Zhang , Feng Sun , Qi Zhang , Rongrong Ji

Most content-based image retrieval systems consider either one single query, or multiple queries that include the same object or represent the same semantic information. In this paper we consider the content-based image retrieval problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Ko-Jen Hsiao , Jeff Calder , Alfred O. Hero

Multimodal retrieval relies heavily on single-vector retrievers, which compress rich, sequential token sequences into one single global representation. While efficient, they discard fine-grained, local evidence critical for dense retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jianrui Zhang , Hyun Jung Lee , Sukanta Ganguly , Tae-Eui Kam , Donghyun Kim , Yong Jae Lee

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

Generating accurate and coherent image captions in a continual learning setting remains a major challenge due to catastrophic forgetting and the difficulty of aligning evolving visual concepts with language over time. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Bertram Taetz , Gal Bordelius