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Thanks to the large pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP, we can craft a zero-shot classifier by "prompt", e.g., the confidence score of an image being "[CLASS]" can be obtained by using the VLM provided similarity measure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Beier Zhu , Yulei Niu , Yucheng Han , Yue Wu , Hanwang Zhang

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) are highly adaptable to various downstream tasks through few-shot learning, making prompt-based anomaly detection a promising approach. Traditional methods depend on human-crafted prompts that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Pi-Wei Chen , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin , Jia Ji , Feng-Hao Yeh , Zih-Ching Chen , Chao-Chun Chen

Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently shown promise in detecting anomalies. However, previous approaches are fundamentally limited by their reliance on human-designed prompts and the lack of accessible anomaly samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Pi-Wei Chen , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin , Wei-Han Chen , Jia Ji , Zih-Ching Chen , Feng-Hao Yeh , Chao-Chun Chen

Prompt learning has become one of the most efficient paradigms for adapting large pre-trained vision-language models to downstream tasks. Current state-of-the-art methods, like CoOp and ProDA, tend to adopt soft prompts to learn an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Sifan Long , Zhen Zhao , Junkun Yuan , Zichang Tan , Jiangjiang Liu , Luping Zhou , Shengsheng Wang , Jingdong Wang

The promising zero-shot generalization of vision-language models such as CLIP has led to their adoption using prompt learning for numerous downstream tasks. Previous works have shown test-time prompt tuning using entropy minimization to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Jameel Hassan , Hanan Gani , Noor Hussein , Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Muzammal Naseer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan

Prompt-based learning is susceptible to intrinsic bias present in pre-trained language models (LMs), leading to sub-optimal performance in prompt-based zero/few-shot settings. In this work, we propose a null-input prompting method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kang He , Yinghan Long , Kaushik Roy

Single-prompt first-token probabilities from zero-shot vision-language model (VLM) safety classifiers are treated as decision scores, but we show they are unreliable under semantically equivalent prompt reformulation: even when the binary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Charles Weng , Dingwen Li , Alexander Martin

Large pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) offer a promising approach to leveraging human language for enhancing downstream tasks. However, VLMs such as CLIP face significant limitation: its performance is highly sensitive to prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Ao Li , Zongfang Liu , Xinhua Li , Jinghui Zhang , Pengwei Wang , Hu Wang

Despite the great promise of Prompt Tuning (PT) in adapting large Vision-Language Pretrained Models (VLPMs) to downstream tasks, they often struggle to overcome the Base-New Tradeoff (BNT) dilemma: as VLPMs are better tuned to a base task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ji Zhang , Shihan Wu , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Nicu Sebe , Heng Tao Shen

Prompt-based fine-tuning has boosted the performance of Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) on few-shot text classification by employing task-specific prompts. Yet, PLMs are unfamiliar with prompt-style expressions during pre-training, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Jianing Wang , Chengyu Wang , Fuli Luo , Chuanqi Tan , Minghui Qiu , Fei Yang , Qiuhui Shi , Songfang Huang , Ming Gao

GPT-3 can perform numerous tasks when provided a natural language prompt that contains a few training examples. We show that this type of few-shot learning can be unstable: the choice of prompt format, training examples, and even the order…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Tony Z. Zhao , Eric Wallace , Shi Feng , Dan Klein , Sameer Singh

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have gained popularity for their strong open vocabulary classification performance, but they are prone to assigning high confidence scores to misclassifications, limiting their reliability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhenxiang Lin , Maryam Haghighat , Will Browne , Dimity Miller

Textual prompt tuning has demonstrated significant performance improvements in adapting natural language processing models to a variety of downstream tasks by treating hand-engineered prompts as trainable parameters. Inspired by the success…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Jiachen Sun , Mark Ibrahim , Melissa Hall , Ivan Evtimov , Z. Morley Mao , Cristian Canton Ferrer , Caner Hazirbas

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable generalization capabilities via prompting, which leverages VLMs as knowledge bases to extract information beneficial for downstream tasks. However, existing methods primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xiaoyu Qiu , Hao Feng , Yuechen Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) tend to hallucinate, especially when visual inputs are corrupted at test time. We show that such corruptions act as additional distribution shifts, significantly amplifying hallucination rates in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Mriganka Nath , Anurag Das , Jiahao Xie , Bernt Schiele

Fine-tuning large language models is becoming ever more impractical due to their rapidly-growing scale. This motivates the use of parameter-efficient adaptation methods such as prompt tuning (PT), which adds a small number of tunable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Simeng Sun , Yang Liu , Dan Iter , Chenguang Zhu , Mohit Iyyer

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

Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) of pre-trained Vision Transformers (ViTs) has proven highly effective as a parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique for adapting large models to downstream tasks with limited data. Its parameter efficiency makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 M Yashwanth , Sharannya Ghosh , Aditay Tripathi , Anirban Chakraborty

The development of large vision-language models, notably CLIP, has catalyzed research into effective adaptation techniques, with a particular focus on soft prompt tuning. Conjointly, test-time augmentation, which utilizes multiple augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Maxime Zanella , Ismail Ben Ayed

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities to downstream tasks. However, existing prompt tuning based frameworks need to parallelize learnable textual inputs for all categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hao Tan , Jun Li , Yizhuang Zhou , Jun Wan , Zhen Lei , Xiangyu Zhang