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Contrastive language image pretraining (CLIP) is a standard method for training vision-language models. While CLIP is scalable, promptable, and robust to distribution shifts on image classification tasks, it lacks object localization…

We propose a novel taxonomy for bias evaluation of discriminative foundation models, such as Contrastive Language-Pretraining (CLIP), that are used for labeling tasks. We then systematically evaluate existing methods for mitigating bias in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Junaid Ali , Matthaeus Kleindessner , Florian Wenzel , Kailash Budhathoki , Volkan Cevher , Chris Russell

With the advent of large-scale pre-trained models, interest in adapting and exploiting them for continual learning scenarios has grown. In this paper, we propose an approach to exploiting pre-trained vision-language models (e.g. CLIP) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xialei Liu , Xusheng Cao , Haori Lu , Jia-wen Xiao , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Ming-Ming Cheng

CLIP exhibits strong visual-textual alignment but struggle with open-vocabulary segmentation due to poor localization. Prior methods enhance spatial coherence by modifying intermediate attention. But, this coherence isn't consistently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zhixiang Chi , Yanan Wu , Li Gu , Huan Liu , Ziqiang Wang , Yang Zhang , Yang Wang , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Pre-trained vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) have shown powerful zero-shot transfer capabilities. But they still struggle with domain shifts and typically require labeled data to adapt to downstream tasks, which could be costly. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiachen Liang , Ruibing Hou , Minyang Hu , Hong Chang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Large-scale contrastive vision-language pre-training has shown significant progress in visual representation learning. Unlike traditional visual systems trained by a fixed set of discrete labels, a new paradigm was introduced in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Peng Gao , Shijie Geng , Renrui Zhang , Teli Ma , Rongyao Fang , Yongfeng Zhang , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by leveraging semantic information from seen classes, but most existing methods assume accurate class labels for training instances. However, in real-world scenarios, noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jinfu Fan , Jiangnan Li , Xiaowen Yan , Xiaohui Zhong , Wenpeng Lu , Linqing Huang

Recent advances in foundational Vision Language Models (VLMs) have reshaped the evaluation paradigm in computer vision tasks. These foundational models, especially CLIP, have accelerated research in open-vocabulary computer vision tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 M. Arda Aydın , Efe Mert Çırpar , Elvin Abdinli , Gozde Unal , Yusuf H. Sahin

Large-scale vision-language models, such as CLIP, are known to contain societal bias regarding protected attributes (e.g., gender, age). This paper aims to address the problems of societal bias in CLIP. Although previous studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yusuke Hirota , Min-Hung Chen , Chien-Yi Wang , Yuta Nakashima , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Ryo Hachiuma

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) is an approach that has advanced research and applications in computer vision, fueling modern recognition systems and generative models. We believe that the main ingredient to the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hu Xu , Saining Xie , Xiaoqing Ellen Tan , Po-Yao Huang , Russell Howes , Vasu Sharma , Shang-Wen Li , Gargi Ghosh , Luke Zettlemoyer , Christoph Feichtenhofer

Machine learning models have been shown to inherit biases from their training datasets. This can be particularly problematic for vision-language foundation models trained on uncurated datasets scraped from the internet. The biases can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ching-Yao Chuang , Varun Jampani , Yuanzhen Li , Antonio Torralba , Stefanie Jegelka

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has emerged as a novel paradigm to learn visual models from language supervision. While researchers continue to push the frontier of CLIP, reproducing these works remains challenging. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Yufeng Cui , Lichen Zhao , Feng Liang , Yangguang Li , Jing Shao

Video understanding has shown remarkable improvements in recent years, largely dependent on the availability of large scaled labeled datasets. Recent advancements in visual-language models, especially based on contrastive pretraining, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shreyank N Gowda , Boyan Gao , Xiao Gu , Xiaobo Jin

Large-scale vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated impressive open-vocabulary capabilities for image-level tasks, excelling in recognizing what objects are present. However, they struggle with pixel-level recognition tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Heeseong Shin , Chaehyun Kim , Sunghwan Hong , Seokju Cho , Anurag Arnab , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Seungryong Kim

The contrastive vision-language pre-training, known as CLIP, demonstrates remarkable potential in perceiving open-world visual concepts, enabling effective zero-shot image recognition. Nevertheless, few-shot learning methods based on CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Cheng Cheng , Lin Song , Ruoyi Xue , Hang Wang , Hongbin Sun , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan

In this paper, we demonstrate that CLIP can also be adapted to downstream tasks where its vision-language alignment is suboptimally learned during pre-training on web-crawled data, all without requiring fine-tuning. We explore the case of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Sohee Kim , Jisu Kang , Dunam Kim , Seokju Lee

Vision-language models such as CLIP learn a generic text-image embedding from large-scale training data. A vision-language model can be adapted to a new classification task through few-shot prompt tuning. We find that such a prompt tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Cheng-En Wu , Yu Tian , Haichao Yu , Heng Wang , Pedro Morgado , Yu Hen Hu , Linjie Yang

The popular CLIP model displays impressive zero-shot capabilities thanks to its seamless interaction with arbitrary text prompts. However, its lack of spatial awareness makes it unsuitable for dense computer vision tasks, e.g., semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Monika Wysoczańska , Oriane Siméoni , Michaël Ramamonjisoa , Andrei Bursuc , Tomasz Trzciński , Patrick Pérez

Vision-language models such as CLIP have boosted the performance of open-vocabulary object detection, where the detector is trained on base categories but required to detect novel categories. Existing methods leverage CLIP's strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Cheng Shi , Sibei Yang

CLIP is a widely used foundational vision-language model that is used for zero-shot image recognition and other image-text alignment tasks. We demonstrate that CLIP is vulnerable to change in image quality under compression. This surprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Cangxiong Chen , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Julian Padget