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Vision-Language Pre-Trained models, notably CLIP, that utilize contrastive learning have proven highly adept at extracting generalizable visual features. To inherit the well-learned knowledge of VLP models for downstream tasks, several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yi Zhang , Weicheng Lin , Liang-Jie Zhang

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

Audio-visual zero-shot learning methods commonly build on features extracted from pre-trained models, e.g. video or audio classification models. However, existing benchmarks predate the popularization of large multi-modal models, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 David Kurzendörfer , Otniel-Bogdan Mercea , A. Sophia Koepke , Zeynep Akata

State-of-the-art computer vision systems are trained to predict a fixed set of predetermined object categories. This restricted form of supervision limits their generality and usability since additional labeled data is needed to specify any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Alec Radford , Jong Wook Kim , Chris Hallacy , Aditya Ramesh , Gabriel Goh , Sandhini Agarwal , Girish Sastry , Amanda Askell , Pamela Mishkin , Jack Clark , Gretchen Krueger , Ilya Sutskever

Vision-language models such as CLIP are pretrained on large volumes of internet sourced image and text pairs, and have been shown to sometimes exhibit impressive zero- and low-shot image classification performance. However, due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Omiros Pantazis , Gabriel Brostow , Kate Jones , Oisin Mac Aodha

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

Beyond the success of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), recent trends mark a shift toward exploring the applicability of lightweight vision-language models for resource-constrained scenarios. These models often deliver…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Chu Myaet Thwal , Ye Lin Tun , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Eui-Nam Huh , Choong Seon Hong

CLIP is a widely used foundational vision-language model that is used for zero-shot image recognition and other image-text alignment tasks. We demonstrate that CLIP is vulnerable to change in image quality under compression. This surprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Cangxiong Chen , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Julian Padget

Inspired by the success of transfer learning in computer vision, roboticists have investigated visual pre-training as a means to improve the learning efficiency and generalization ability of policies learned from pixels. To that end, past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Kaylee Burns , Zach Witzel , Jubayer Ibn Hamid , Tianhe Yu , Chelsea Finn , Karol Hausman

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

This paper presents contrastive-tuning, a simple method employing contrastive training to align image and text models while still taking advantage of their pre-training. In our empirical study we find that locked pre-trained image models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Xiaohua Zhai , Xiao Wang , Basil Mustafa , Andreas Steiner , Daniel Keysers , Alexander Kolesnikov , Lucas Beyer

Contrastive image-text models such as CLIP form the building blocks of many state-of-the-art systems. While they excel at recognizing common generic concepts, they still struggle on fine-grained entities which are rare, or even absent from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Ahmet Iscen , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

The integration of vision-language models such as CLIP and Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) offers a promising approach to explaining deep neural network (DNN) decisions using concepts understandable by humans, addressing the black-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Townim F. Chowdhury , Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Kewen Liao , Minh-Son To , Yutong Xie , Anton van den Hengel , Johan W. Verjans , Zhibin Liao

One fascinating aspect of pre-trained vision-language models~(VLMs) learning under language supervision is their impressive zero-shot generalization capability. However, this ability is hindered by distribution shifts between the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Shuai Zhao , Xiaohan Wang , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) is pre-trained to associate audio features with human language, making it a natural zero-shot classifier to recognize unseen sound categories. To adapt CLAP to downstream tasks, prior works…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Yiming Li , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu

Modern deep learning based classifiers show very high accuracy on test data but this does not provide sufficient guarantees for safe deployment, especially in high-stake AI applications such as medical diagnosis. Usually, predictions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 David Stutz , Krishnamurthy , Dvijotham , Ali Taylan Cemgil , Arnaud Doucet

Test-time adaptation (TTA) has emerged as a promising paradigm for vision-language models (VLMs) to bridge the distribution gap between pre-training and test data. Recent works have focused on backpropagation-free TTA methods that rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhaohong Huang , Yuxin Zhang , Wenjing Liu , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities across multiple challenging distribution shifts. However, there is still much to be explored in terms of their robustness to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Weijie Tu , Weijian Deng , Tom Gedeon

Few-shot adaptation of vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP typically relies on learning textual prompts matched to global image embeddings. Recent works extend this paradigm by incorporating local image-text alignment to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Deniz Kizaroğlu , Ülku Tuncer Küçüktas , Emre Çakmakyurdu , Alptekin Temizel

Traditional computer vision models are trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories. Recently, natural language has been shown to be a broader and richer source of supervision that provides finer descriptions to visual concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ruizhe Cheng , Bichen Wu , Peizhao Zhang , Peter Vajda , Joseph E. Gonzalez