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Multimodal co-embedding models, especially CLIP, have advanced the state of the art in zero-shot classification and multimedia information retrieval in recent years by aligning images and text in a shared representation space. However, such…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Allie Tran , Luca Rossetto

CLIP showcases exceptional cross-modal matching capabilities due to its training on image-text contrastive learning tasks. However, without specific optimization for unimodal scenarios, its performance in single-modality feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Chao Yi , Lu Ren , De-Chuan Zhan , Han-Jia Ye

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) serves as a de-facto standard to align images and texts. Nonetheless, the loose correlation between images and texts of web-crawled data renders the contrastive objective data inefficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jinghao Zhou , Li Dong , Zhe Gan , Lijuan Wang , Furu Wei

Contrastive vision-language models (VLMs), like CLIP, have gained popularity for their versatile applicability to various downstream tasks. Despite their successes in some tasks, like zero-shot object recognition, they perform surprisingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Simon Schrodi , David T. Hoffmann , Max Argus , Volker Fischer , Thomas Brox

Vision-language models (VLMs) are often deployed on text-only inputs, although they are trained with images. We find that removing the vision modality causes large drops in accuracy and severe miscalibration, and the model does not behave…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mingyeong Kim , Jungwon Choi , Chaeyun Jang , Juho Lee

Vision-language models, such as contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP), have demonstrated impressive results in natural image domains. However, these models often struggle when applied to specialized domains like remote sensing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Sangwoo Mo , Minkyu Kim , Kyungmin Lee , Jinwoo Shin

In this work, we explore using the style ambiguity training objective, originally used to approximate creativity, on a diffusion model. However, this objective requires the use of a pretrained classifier and a labeled dataset. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 James Baker

Foundations models are presented as generalists that often perform well over a myriad of tasks. Fine-tuning these models, even on limited data, provides an additional boost in task-specific performance but often at the cost of their wider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Laura Niss , Kevin Vogt-Lowell , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis

Significant progress has been achieved on the improvement and downstream usages of the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) vision-language model, while less attention is paid to the interpretation of CLIP. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Chenyang Zhao , Kun Wang , Janet H. Hsiao , Antoni B. Chan

Cross-modal retrieval is the task of retrieving samples of a given modality by using queries of a different one. Due to the wide range of practical applications, the problem has been mainly focused on the vision and language case, e.g. text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jorge Sánchez , Rodrigo Laguna

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated great zero-shot performance for matching images and text. However, it is still challenging to adapt vision-lanaguage pretrained models like CLIP to compositional image and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kenan Jiang , Xuehai He , Ruize Xu , Xin Eric Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) demonstrates strong potential in medical image analysis but requires substantial data and computational resources. Due to these restrictions, existing CLIP applications in medical imaging focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yuexi Du , John Onofrey , Nicha C. Dvornek

Likelihood approximations for images are not trivial to compute and can be useful in many applications. We examine the use of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) to assess the likelihood of images and captions. We introduce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Roy Betser , Meir Yossef Levi , Guy Gilboa

Recent research has shown that CLIP models struggle with visual reasoning tasks that require grounding compositionality, understanding spatial relationships, or capturing fine-grained details. One natural hypothesis is that the CLIP vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Siting Li , Pang Wei Koh , Simon Shaolei Du

Cross-modal alignment is a crucial task in multimodal learning aimed at achieving semantic consistency between vision and language. This requires that image-text pairs exhibit similar semantics. Traditional algorithms pursue embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiang Ma , Lexin Fang , Litian Xu , Caiming Zhang

In this paper we deal with image classification tasks using the powerful CLIP vision-language model. Our goal is to advance the classification performance using the CLIP's image encoder, by proposing a novel Large Multimodal Model (LMM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Maria Tzelepi , Vasileios Mezaris

While recent work has found that vision-language models trained under the Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP) framework contain intrinsic social biases, the extent to which different upstream pre-training features of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Kshitish Ghate , Isaac Slaughter , Kyra Wilson , Mona Diab , Aylin Caliskan

This work explores how color is encoded in CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) which is currently the most influential VML (Visual Language model) in Artificial Intelligence. After performing different experiments on synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Guillem Arias , Ramon Baldrich , Maria Vanrell

Despite the recent success of image-text contrastive models like CLIP and SigLIP, these models often struggle with vision-centric tasks that demand high-fidelity image understanding, such as counting, depth estimation, and fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zineng Tang , Long Lian , Seun Eisape , XuDong Wang , Roei Herzig , Adam Yala , Alane Suhr , Trevor Darrell , David M. Chan

Large-scale cross-modal pre-training paradigms have recently shown ubiquitous success on a wide range of downstream tasks, e.g., zero-shot classification, retrieval and image captioning. However, their successes highly rely on the scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Runhui Huang , Yanxin Long , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Xiwen Liang , Chunjing Xu , Xiaodan Liang