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Significant progress has been achieved on the improvement and downstream usages of the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) vision-language model, while less attention is paid to the interpretation of CLIP. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Chenyang Zhao , Kun Wang , Janet H. Hsiao , Antoni B. Chan

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

Large vision-language contrastive models (VLCMs), such as CLIP, have become foundational, demonstrating remarkable success across a variety of downstream tasks. Despite their advantages, these models, akin to other foundational systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Haocheng Dai , Sarang Joshi

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has significantly boosted the performance of various vision-language tasks by scaling up the dataset with image-text pairs collected from the web. However, the presence of intrinsic noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Kaicheng Yang , Jiankang Deng , Xiang An , Jiawei Li , Ziyong Feng , Jia Guo , Jing Yang , Tongliang Liu

In this paper, a novel contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) model based semantic communication framework is designed. Compared to standard neural network (e.g.,convolutional neural network) based semantic encoders and decoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shaoran Yang , Dongyu Wei , Hanzhi Yu , Zhaohui Yang , Yuchen Liu , Mingzhe Chen

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) is a popular method for learning multimodal latent spaces with well-organized semantics. Despite its wide range of applications, CLIP's latent space is known to fail at handling complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Raphi Kang , Yue Song , Georgia Gkioxari , Pietro Perona

The success of large-scale contrastive vision-language pretraining (CLIP) has benefited both visual recognition and multimodal content understanding. The concise design brings CLIP the advantage in inference efficiency against other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shijie Geng , Jianbo Yuan , Yu Tian , Yuxiao Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) is highly instrumental in machine learning applications within a large variety of domains. We investigate the geometry of this embedding, which is still not well understood. We examine the raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Meir Yossef Levi , Guy Gilboa

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), a simple yet effective pre-training paradigm, successfully introduces text supervision to vision models. It has shown promising results across various tasks due to its generalizability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zihao Zhao , Yuxiao Liu , Han Wu , Mei Wang , Yonghao Li , Sheng Wang , Lin Teng , Disheng Liu , Zhiming Cui , Qian Wang , Dinggang Shen

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) on large-scale image-caption datasets learns representations that can achieve remarkable zero-shot generalization. However, such models require a massive amount of pre-training data. Improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Siddharth Joshi , Arnav Jain , Ali Payani , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

In this paper, we introduce DetailCLIP: A Detail-Oriented CLIP to address the limitations of contrastive learning-based vision-language models, particularly CLIP, in handling detail-oriented and fine-grained tasks like segmentation. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Kishore Prakash Sailaja , Ali Alilooee , Ser-Nam Lim , Rajiv Ramnath

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

Recent multimodal models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have shown remarkable ability to align visual and linguistic representations. However, domains where small visual differences carry large semantic significance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hiroshi Sasaki

Referring image segmentation aims to segment a referent via a natural linguistic expression.Due to the distinct data properties between text and image, it is challenging for a network to well align text and pixel-level features. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Zhaoqing Wang , Yu Lu , Qiang Li , Xunqiang Tao , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Recent advances in contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) have demonstrated strong capabilities in zero-shot classification by aligning visual representations with target text embeddings in an image level. However, in dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Feng Wang , Jieru Mei , Alan Yuille

Contrastive vision-language models continue to be the dominant approach for image and text retrieval. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) trains two neural networks in contrastive manner to align their image and text embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kwun Ho Ngan , Saman Sadeghi Afgeh , Joe Townsend , Artur d'Avila Garcez

Despite the success of large-scale pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) especially CLIP in various open-vocabulary tasks, their application to semantic segmentation remains challenging, producing noisy segmentation maps with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Yiping Ke , Xinjiang Wang , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

Image enhancement is a significant research area in the fields of computer vision and image processing. In recent years, many learning-based methods for image enhancement have been developed, where the Look-up-table (LUT) has proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Weiwen Chen , Qiuhong Ke , Zinuo Li

Recent deep learning-based methods for lossy image compression achieve competitive rate-distortion performance through extensive end-to-end training and advanced architectures. However, emerging applications increasingly prioritize semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ruiqi Shen , Haotian Wu , Wenjing Zhang , Jiangjing Hu , Deniz Gunduz

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) is widely used to train models to align images and texts in a common embedding space by mapping them to fixed-sized vectors. These models are key to multimodal information retrieval and related…