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Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are becoming increasingly popular across various visual tasks, and several open-sourced VLM variants have been released. However, selecting the best-performing pre-trained VLM for a specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Hao-Zhe Tan , Zhi Zhou , Yu-Feng Li , Lan-Zhe Guo

Prompt tuning of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP, has demonstrated the ability to rapidly adapt to various downstream tasks. However, recent studies indicate that tuned VLMs may suffer from the problem of spurious correlations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Chaoquan Jiang , Yunfan Yang , Rui Hu , Jitao Sang

This paper presents novel benchmarks for evaluating vision-language models (VLMs) in zero-shot recognition, focusing on granularity and specificity. Although VLMs excel in tasks like image captioning, they face challenges in open-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhenlin Xu , Yi Zhu , Tiffany Deng , Abhay Mittal , Yanbei Chen , Manchen Wang , Paolo Favaro , Joseph Tighe , Davide Modolo

Finetuning a large vision language model (VLM) on a target dataset after large scale pretraining is a dominant paradigm in visual question answering (VQA). Datasets for specialized tasks such as knowledge-based VQA or VQA in non…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Zaid Khan , Vijay Kumar BG , Samuel Schulter , Xiang Yu , Yun Fu , Manmohan Chandraker

In the context of noisy partial label learning (NPLL), each training sample is associated with a set of candidate labels annotated by multiple noisy annotators. With the emergence of high-performance pre-trained vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Qian-Wei Wang , Yaguang Song , Shu-Tao Xia

Vision-language models (VLMs) have gained widespread attention for their strong zero-shot capabilities across numerous downstream tasks. However, these models assume that each test image's class label is drawn from a predefined label set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yongguang Li , Jindong Li , Qi Wang , Qianli Xing , Runliang Niu , Shengsheng Wang , Menglin Yang

In medical image analysis, the expertise scarcity and the high cost of data annotation limits the development of large artificial intelligence models. This paper investigates the potential of transfer learning with pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jiajin Zhang , Ge Wang , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Pingkun Yan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) represent a significant breakthrough in artificial intelligence by integrating visual and textual modalities to achieve impressive zero-shot capabilities. However, VLMs are susceptible to catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Haoyuan Gao , Zicong Zhang , Yuqi Wei , Linglan Zhao , Guilin Li , Yexin Li , Bo Wang , Linghe Kong , Weiran Huang

Several recent works seek to develop foundation models specifically for medical applications, adapting general-purpose large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) via continued pretraining on publicly available biomedical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Daniel P. Jeong , Saurabh Garg , Zachary C. Lipton , Michael Oberst

Few-shot classification (FSC) is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision that involves recognizing novel classes from limited data. While previous methods have focused on enhancing visual features or incorporating additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Fan Liu , Wenwen Cai , Jian Huo , Chuanyi Zhang , Delong Chen , Jun Zhou

Although supervised machine learning is popular for information extraction from clinical notes, creating large annotated datasets requires extensive domain expertise and is time-consuming. Meanwhile, large language models (LLMs) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Madhumita Sushil , Travis Zack , Divneet Mandair , Zhiwei Zheng , Ahmed Wali , Yan-Ning Yu , Yuwei Quan , Atul J. Butte

In this paper, we address the challenge of few-shot classification in histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) by utilizing foundational vision-language models (VLMs) and slide-level prompt learning. Given the gigapixel scale of WSIs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Devavrat Tomar , Guillaume Vray , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Sudipta Roy , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Behzad Bozorgtabar

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot ability in image classification tasks by aligning text and images but suffer inferior performance compared with task-specific expert models. On the contrary,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jia Zhang , Zhi Zhou , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT demonstrate strong few-shot adaptability without requiring fine-tuning, positioning them ideal for data-limited and real-time applications. However, this adaptability has not yet been replicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Zixuan Hu , Yongxian Wei , Li Shen , Chun Yuan , Dacheng Tao

Pre-trained Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated notable progress in various zero-shot tasks, such as classification and retrieval. Despite their performance, because improving performance on new tasks requires task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jihwan Bang , Sumyeong Ahn , Jae-Gil Lee

Vision-and-Language Pre-training (VLP) has improved performance on various joint vision-and-language downstream tasks. Current approaches to VLP heavily rely on image feature extraction processes, most of which involve region supervision…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-11 Wonjae Kim , Bokyung Son , Ildoo Kim

Foundation models have had a significant impact across various AI applications, enabling use cases that were previously impossible. Contrastive Visual Language Models (VLMs), in particular, have outperformed other techniques in many tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Aviad Barzilai , Yotam Gigi , Amr Helmy , Vered Silverman , Yehonathan Refael , Bolous Jaber , Tomer Shekel , George Leifman , Genady Beryozkin

Vision-Language models (VLMs) that use contrastive language-image pre-training have shown promising zero-shot classification performance. However, their performance on imbalanced dataset is relatively poor, where the distribution of classes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yidong Wang , Zhuohao Yu , Jindong Wang , Qiang Heng , Hao Chen , Wei Ye , Rui Xie , Xing Xie , Shikun Zhang

A visual-language model (VLM) pre-trained on natural images and text pairs poses a significant barrier when applied to medical contexts due to domain shift. Yet, adapting or fine-tuning these VLMs for medical use presents considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Aisha Urooj Khan , John Garrett , Tyler Bradshaw , Lonie Salkowski , Jiwoong Jason Jeong , Amara Tariq , Imon Banerjee

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are markedly proficient in deriving visual representations guided by natural language. Recent explorations have utilized LVLMs to tackle zero-shot visual anomaly detection (VAD) challenges by pairing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiaqi Zhu , Shaofeng Cai , Fang Deng , Beng Chin Ooi , Junran Wu