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Recent advancements in medical vision-language pre-training (MedVLP) have significantly enhanced zero-shot medical vision tasks such as image classification by leveraging large-scale medical image-text pair pre-training. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Sicheng Wang , Che Liu , Rossella Arcucci

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated impressive zero-shot transfer capabilities in image-level visual perception. However, these models have shown limited performance in instance-level tasks that demand precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Lingfeng Yang , Yueze Wang , Xiang Li , Xinlong Wang , Jian Yang

Prompt ensembling of Large Language Model (LLM) generated category-specific prompts has emerged as an effective method to enhance zero-shot recognition ability of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). To obtain these category-specific prompts, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Leonid Karlinsky , Wei Lin , Sivan Doveh , Jakub Micorek , Mateusz Kozinski , Hilde Kuehne , Horst Possegger

Current Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) excel at many zero-shot tasks like image captioning, visual question answering and OCR. However, these same models suffer from poor performance at image classification tasks, underperforming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Adhemar de Senneville , Xavier Bou , Jérémy Anger , Rafael Grompone , Gabriele Facciolo

Recent advances in few-shot adaptation for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have greatly expanded their ability to generalize across tasks using only a few labeled examples. However, existing approaches primarily build upon the strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Maxime Zanella , Clément Fuchs , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

This paper proposes a novel framework for multi-label image recognition without any training data, called data-free framework, which uses knowledge of pre-trained Large Language Model (LLM) to learn prompts to adapt pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shuo Yang , Zirui Shang , Yongqi Wang , Derong Deng , Hongwei Chen , Qiyuan Cheng , Xinxiao Wu

With the success of pre-trained visual-language (VL) models such as CLIP in visual representation tasks, transferring pre-trained models to downstream tasks has become a crucial paradigm. Recently, the prompt tuning paradigm, which draws…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Jingsheng Gao , Jiacheng Ruan , Suncheng Xiang , Zefang Yu , Ke Ji , Mingye Xie , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

Contrastive vision-language models like CLIP have shown great progress in transfer learning. In the inference stage, the proper text description, also known as prompt, needs to be carefully designed to correctly classify the given images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Tony Huang , Jack Chu , Fangyun Wei

Adopting contrastive image-text pretrained models like CLIP towards video classification has gained attention due to its cost-effectiveness and competitive performance. However, recent works in this area face a trade-off. Finetuning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Syed Talal Wasim , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), trained on extensive datasets of image-text pairs, exhibit strong multimodal understanding capabilities by implicitly learning associations between textual descriptions and image regions. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , Mennatullah Siam , Leonid Sigal , James J. Little

Vision-language models (VLMs) can learn high-quality representations from a large-scale training dataset of image-text pairs. Prompt learning is a popular approach to fine-tuning VLM to adapt them to downstream tasks. Despite the satisfying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Zhifang Zhang , Yuwei Niu , Xin Liu , Beibei Li

This paper presents VisLingInstruct, a novel approach to advancing Multi-Modal Language Models (MMLMs) in zero-shot learning. Current MMLMs show impressive zero-shot abilities in multi-modal tasks, but their performance depends heavily on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Dongsheng Zhu , Xunzhu Tang , Weidong Han , Jinghui Lu , Yukun Zhao , Guoliang Xing , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin

With recent progress in joint modeling of visual and textual representations, Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) has achieved impressive performance on many multimodal downstream tasks. However, the requirement for expensive annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Zirui Wang , Jiahui Yu , Adams Wei Yu , Zihang Dai , Yulia Tsvetkov , Yuan Cao

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) has shown remarkable zero-shot transfer capabilities in cross-modal correlation tasks such as visual classification and image retrieval. However, its performance in cross-modal generation tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Junyang Wang , Yi Zhang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Jitao Sang

Large language models (LLMs) have been effectively used for many computer vision tasks, including image classification. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective approach for zero-shot image classification using multimodal LLMs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Abdelrahman Abdelhamed , Mahmoud Afifi , Alec Go

While deep learning, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), has significantly advanced classification performance, its typical reliance on extensive annotated datasets presents a major obstacle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Matheus Vinícius Todescato , Joel Luís Carbonera

Medical image classification plays a crucial role in clinical decision-making, yet most models are constrained to a fixed set of predefined classes, limiting their adaptability to new conditions. Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Stefan Denner , Markus Bujotzek , Dimitrios Bounias , David Zimmerer , Raphael Stock , Klaus Maier-Hein

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

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