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Text-to-image diffusion models have shown impressive capabilities in generating realistic visuals from natural-language prompts, yet they often struggle with accurately binding attributes to corresponding objects, especially in prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Do Huu Dat , Nam Hyeonu , Po-Yuan Mao , Tae-Hyun Oh

With the emergence of large pre-trained vison-language model like CLIP, transferable representations can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks via prompt tuning. Prompt tuning tries to probe the beneficial information for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yinghui Xing , Qirui Wu , De Cheng , Shizhou Zhang , Guoqiang Liang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are typically trained using autoregressive language modeling objectives, which align visual representations with linguistic space. While effective for multimodal reasoning, this alignment can weaken…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Donghee Lee , Rui Cai , Zhe Zhao

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

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

This work explores the zero-shot compositional learning ability of large pre-trained vision-language models(VLMs) within the prompt-based learning framework and propose a model (\textit{PromptCompVL}) to solve the compositonal zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Guangyue Xu , Parisa Kordjamshidi , Joyce Chai

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels aims to achieve pixel-level predictions using Class Activation Maps (CAMs). Recently, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been introduced in WSSS.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zhiwei Yang , Yucong Meng , Kexue Fu , Feilong Tang , Shuo Wang , Zhijian Song

The adaptation of large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) to downstream tasks with limited labeled data remains a significant challenge. While parameter-efficient prompt learning methods offer a promising path, they often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Enming Zhang , Jiayang Li , Yanru Wu , Zhenyu Liu , Yang Li

Pre-trained vision-language (V-L) models such as CLIP have shown excellent generalization ability to downstream tasks. However, they are sensitive to the choice of input text prompts and require careful selection of prompt templates to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Hanoona Rasheed , Muhammad Maaz , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have significantly advanced zero-shot image recognition. However, their performance remains limited by suboptimal prompt engineering and poor adaptability to target classes. While recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hui Liu , Kecheng Chen , Jialiang Wang , Xianming Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

The potential for zero-shot generalization in vision-language (V-L) models such as CLIP has spurred their widespread adoption in addressing numerous downstream tasks. Previous methods have employed test-time prompt tuning to adapt the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Anant Khandelwal

Highlighting particularly relevant regions of an image can improve the performance of vision-language models (VLMs) on various vision-language (VL) tasks by guiding the model to attend more closely to these regions of interest. For example,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 David Wan , Jaemin Cho , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Mohit Bansal

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities for downstream tasks. Due to its efficiency, prompt learning has gradually become a more effective and efficient method for transferring VLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chenhao Ding , Xinyuan Gao , Songlin Dong , Jizhou Han , Qiang Wang , Zhengdong Zhou , Yuhang He , Yihong Gong

Image recognition has recently witnessed a paradigm shift, where vision-language models are now used to perform few-shot classification based on textual prompts. Among these, the CLIP model has shown remarkable capabilities for zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Alberto Baldrati , Francesco Todino , Federico Becattini , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

The notable gap between user-provided and model-preferred prompts poses a significant challenge for generating high-quality images with text-to-image models, compelling the need for prompt engineering. Current studies on prompt engineering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shiyu Wu , Mingzhen Sun , Weining Wang , Yequan Wang , Jing Liu

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

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot performance across various classification tasks. Nonetheless, their reliance on hand-crafted text prompts for each task hinders efficient adaptation to new tasks. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hoyoung Kim , Seokhee Jin , Changhwan Sung , Jaechang Kim , Jungseul Ok

Fine-grained image classification, particularly in zero/few-shot scenarios, presents a significant challenge for vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP. These models often struggle with the nuanced task of distinguishing between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Canshi Wei

We propose Consistency-guided Prompt learning (CoPrompt), a new fine-tuning method for vision-language models. Our approach improves the generalization of large foundation models when fine-tuned on downstream tasks in a few-shot setting.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shuvendu Roy , Ali Etemad

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) highly depends on a good semantic embedding to connect the seen and unseen classes. Recently, distributed word embeddings (DWE) pre-trained from large text corpus have become a popular choice to draw such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Ruizhi Qiao , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel