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Few-shot learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training models with limited labeled data, addressing challenges in scenarios where large-scale annotation is impractical. While extensive research has been conducted in the image…

Multimodal alignment between language and vision is the fundamental topic in current vision-language model research. Contrastive Captioners (CoCa), as a representative method, integrates Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Ziping Ma , Furong Xu , Jian Liu , Ming Yang , Qingpei Guo

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, multimodal models, e.g., integrating vision and language into visual-language models (VLMs), have become pivotal for many applications, ranging from image captioning to multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Duy Phuong Nguyen , J. Pablo Munoz , Ali Jannesari

In recent years, image editing has garnered growing attention. However, general image editing models often fail to produce satisfactory results when confronted with new styles. The challenge lies in how to effectively fine-tune general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Cong Cao , Huanjing Yue , Yujie Xu , Xiaodong Xu

Learning from a few examples is a challenging task for machine learning. While recent progress has been made for this problem, most of the existing methods ignore the compositionality in visual concept representation (e.g. objects are built…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ping Hu , Ximeng Sun , Kate Saenko , Stan Sclaroff

Few-shot learning aims to train models that can be generalized to novel classes with only a few samples. Recently, a line of works are proposed to enhance few-shot learning with accessible semantic information from class names. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zihao Jiang , Yunkai Dang , Dong Pang , Huishuai Zhang , Weiran Huang

Vision language model (VLM) has been designed for large scale image-text alignment as a pretrained foundation model. For downstream few shot classification tasks, parameter efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) VLM has gained much popularity in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhongqi Wang , Jia Dai , Kai Li , Xu Li , Yanmeng Guo , Maosheng Xiang

Foundation models have become prominent in computer vision, achieving notable success in various tasks. However, their effectiveness largely depends on pre-training with extensive datasets. Applying foundation models directly to small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Bowen Zhang , Ying Chen , Long Bai , Yan Zhao , Yuxiang Sun , Yixuan Yuan , Jianhua Zhang , Hongliang Ren

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

As few-shot object detectors are often trained with abundant base samples and fine-tuned on few-shot novel examples,the learned models are usually biased to base classes and sensitive to the variance of novel examples. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jiaming Han , Yuqiang Ren , Jian Ding , Ke Yan , Gui-Song Xia

In this paper, we look at cross-domain few-shot classification which presents the challenging task of learning new classes in previously unseen domains with few labelled examples. Existing methods, though somewhat effective, encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Rashindrie Perera , Saman Halgamuge

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as a leading parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique for adapting large foundation models, yet it often locks adapters into suboptimal minima near their initialization. This hampers model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhan Zhuang , Xiequn Wang , Wei Li , Yulong Zhang , Qiushi Huang , Shuhao Chen , Xuehao Wang , Yanbin Wei , Yuhe Nie , Kede Ma , Yu Zhang , Ying Wei

Zero-shot classification of image scenes which can recognize the image scenes that are not seen in the training stage holds great promise of lowering the dependence on large numbers of labeled samples. To address the zero-shot image scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Chun Liu , Suqiang Ma , Zheng Li , Wei Yang , Zhigang Han

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as the de facto standard for parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) of foundation models, enabling the adaptation of billion-parameter networks with minimal computational and memory overhead. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Bingcong Li , Yilang Zhang , Georgios B. Giannakis

Foundation models have achieved great success across diverse domains, including remote sensing (RS), thanks to their versatility and strong generalization abilities. However, most RS foundation models are designed for multispectral data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Bernardin Ligan , Khalide Jbilou , Fahd Kalloubi , Ahmed Ratnani

The goal of Few-Shot Continual Learning (FSCL) is to incrementally learn novel tasks with limited labeled samples and preserve previous capabilities simultaneously, while current FSCL methods are all for the class-incremental purpose.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yawen Cui , Zitong Yu , Rizhao Cai , Xun Wang , Alex C. Kot , Li Liu

The recent CLIP-based methods have shown promising zero-shot and few-shot performance on image classification tasks. Existing approaches such as CoOp and Tip-Adapter only focus on high-level visual features that are fully aligned with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiaying Shi , Xuetong Xue , Shenghui Xu

Current multimodal models leveraging contrastive learning often face limitations in developing fine-grained conceptual understanding. This is due to random negative samples during pretraining, causing almost exclusively very dissimilar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Philipp J. Rösch , Norbert Oswald , Michaela Geierhos , Jindřich Libovický

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have shown remarkable performance in cross-modal tasks through large-scale contrastive pre-training. To adapt these large transformer-based models efficiently for downstream tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sajjad Ghiasvand , Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate strong zero-shot generalization, but their performance significantly degrades in cross-domain scenarios with scarce target-domain training data (Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning, CDFSL).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shuai Yi , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li