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By locally encoding raw data into intermediate features, collaborative inference enables end users to leverage powerful deep learning models without exposure of sensitive raw data to cloud servers. However, recent studies have revealed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Song Xia , Yi Yu , Wenhan Yang , Meiwen Ding , Zhuo Chen , Ling-Yu Duan , Alex C. Kot , Xudong Jiang

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) map dense feature representations into human-interpretable concepts which are then combined linearly to make a prediction. However, modern CBMs rely on the CLIP model to obtain image-concept annotations, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Fawaz Sammani , Jonas Fischer , Nikos Deligiannis

Large-scale Vision-Language Foundation Models (VLFMs), such as CLIP, now underpin a wide range of computer vision research and applications. VLFMs are often adapted to various domain-specific tasks. However, VLFM performance on novel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chris Vorster , Mayug Maniparambil , Noel E. O'Connor , Noel Murphy , Derek Molloy

Membership inference attacks (MIAs), which enable adversaries to determine whether specific data points were part of a model's training dataset, have emerged as an important framework to understand, assess, and quantify the potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Toan Tran , Olivera Kotevska , Li Xiong

In this paper we present the first model for directly synthesizing fluent, natural-sounding spoken audio captions for images that does not require natural language text as an intermediate representation or source of supervision. Instead, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Wei-Ning Hsu , David Harwath , Christopher Song , James Glass

Recent advances in large language and vision-language models have enabled zero-shot inference, allowing models to solve new tasks without task-specific training. Various adaptation techniques such as prompt engineering, In-Context Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Artyom Gadetsky , Andrei Atanov , Yulun Jiang , Zhitong Gao , Ghazal Hosseini Mighan , Amir Zamir , Maria Brbic

Contrastive models like CLIP have been shown to learn robust representations of images that capture both semantics and style. To leverage these representations for image generation, we propose a two-stage model: a prior that generates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Aditya Ramesh , Prafulla Dhariwal , Alex Nichol , Casey Chu , Mark Chen

Generative AI systems are quickly improving, now able to produce believable output in several modalities including images, text, and audio. However, this fast development has prompted increased scrutiny concerning user privacy and the use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Kurtis Chow , Omar Samiullah , Vinesh Sridhar , Hewen Zhang

We introduce VidTFS, a Training-free, open-vocabulary video goal and action inference framework that combines the frozen vision foundational model (VFM) and large language model (LLM) with a novel dynamic Frame Selection module. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ee Yeo Keat , Zhang Hao , Alexander Matyasko , Basura Fernando

Large multimodal models demonstrate remarkable generalist ability to perform diverse multimodal tasks in a zero-shot manner. Large-scale web-based image-text pairs contribute fundamentally to this success, but suffer from excessive noise.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Qiying Yu , Quan Sun , Xiaosong Zhang , Yufeng Cui , Fan Zhang , Yue Cao , Xinlong Wang , Jingjing Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) utilize large amounts of data for their training, some of which may come from copyrighted sources. Membership Inference Attacks (MIA) aim to detect those documents and whether they have been included in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Juliusz Janicki , Savvas Chamezopoulos , Evangelos Kanoulas , Georgios Tsatsaronis

Video Multimodal Large Language Models~(Video-MLLM) have achieved remarkable advancements in video understanding tasks. However, constrained by the context length limitation in the underlying LLMs, existing Video-MLLMs typically exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kuo Wang , Quanlong Zheng , Junlin Xie , Yanhao Zhang , Jinguo Luo , Haonan Lu , Liang Lin , Fan Zhou , Guanbin Li

While recent vision-and-language models (VLMs) like CLIP are a powerful tool for analyzing text and images in a shared semantic space, they do not explicitly model the hierarchical nature of the set of texts which may describe an image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Morris Alper , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

We present Masked Frequency Modeling (MFM), a unified frequency-domain-based approach for self-supervised pre-training of visual models. Instead of randomly inserting mask tokens to the input embeddings in the spatial domain, in this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jiahao Xie , Wei Li , Xiaohang Zhan , Ziwei Liu , Yew Soon Ong , Chen Change Loy

With the advancements in Large Language and Latent Diffusion models, brain decoding has achieved remarkable results in recent years. The works on the NSD dataset, with stimuli images from the COCO dataset, leverage the embeddings from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Vyacheslav Shen , Kassymzhomart Kunanbayev , Dae-Shik Kim

Text-conditioned image generation models are a prevalent use of AI image synthesis, yet intuitively controlling output guided by an artist remains challenging. Current methods require multiple images and textual prompts for each object to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Shounak Chatterjee

Incorporating automatically predicted human feedback into the process of training generative models has attracted substantial recent interest, while feedback at inference time has received less attention. The typical feedback at training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Uri Berger , Omri Abend , Lea Frermann , Gabriel Stanovsky

In recent years, the upstream of Large Language Models (LLM) has also encouraged the computer vision community to work on substantial multimodal datasets and train models on a scale in a self-/semi-supervised manner, resulting in Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Keno Moenck , Duc Trung Thieu , Julian Koch , Thorsten Schüppstuhl

Training-free zero-shot composed image retrieval models are recently gaining increasing research interest due to their generalizability and flexibility in unseen multimodal retrieval. Recent LLM-based advances focus on generating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Miaoge Li , Dongsheng Wang , Zening Sun , Jinsen Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Jingcai Guo

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether a specific sample was used to train a predictive model. Knowing this may indeed lead to a privacy breach. Most MIAs, however, make use of the model's prediction scores - the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Dominik Hintersdorf , Lukas Struppek , Kristian Kersting