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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become prominent models for solving various vision tasks. However, the interpretability of ViTs has not kept pace with their promising performance. While there has been a surge of interest in developing {\it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yao Qiang , Chengyin Li , Prashant Khanduri , Dongxiao Zhu

Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) can make semantic and visual inferences across diverse settings, providing valuable common-sense priors for robotic control. However, effectively grounding this knowledge in robot behaviors remains…

Transformer design is the de facto standard for natural language processing tasks. The success of the transformer design in natural language processing has lately piqued the interest of researchers in the domain of computer vision. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Md Sohag Mia , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Md Shariful Islam

Generative models have shown a giant leap in synthesizing photo-realistic images with minimal expertise, sparking concerns about the authenticity of online information. This study aims to develop a universal AI-generated image detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zihan Liu , Hanyi Wang , Yaoyu Kang , Shilin Wang

In this work, we focus on unsupervised vision-language-action mapping in the area of robotic manipulation. Recently, multiple approaches employing pre-trained large language and vision models have been proposed for this task. However, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Gabriela Sejnova , Michal Vavrecka , Karla Stepanova

Embodied AI models often employ off the shelf vision backbones like CLIP to encode their visual observations. Although such general purpose representations encode rich syntactic and semantic information about the scene, much of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ainaz Eftekhar , Kuo-Hao Zeng , Jiafei Duan , Ali Farhadi , Ani Kembhavi , Ranjay Krishna

Learning discriminative spatiotemporal representation is the key problem of video understanding. Recently, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown their power in learning long-term video dependency with self-attention. Unfortunately, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Kunchang Li , Yali Wang , Yinan He , Yizhuo Li , Yi Wang , Limin Wang , Yu Qiao

Transformer has been widely used for self-supervised pre-training in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and achieved great success. However, it has not been fully explored in visual self-supervised learning. Meanwhile, previous methods only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhaowen Li , Zhiyang Chen , Fan Yang , Wei Li , Yousong Zhu , Chaoyang Zhao , Rui Deng , Liwei Wu , Rui Zhao , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Recently vision transformers (ViT) have been applied successfully for various tasks in computer vision. However, important questions such as why they work or how they behave still remain largely unknown. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Van-Anh Nguyen , Khanh Pham Dinh , Long Tung Vuong , Thanh-Toan Do , Quan Hung Tran , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

Large Vision Language Models (VLMs) effectively bridge the modality gap through extensive pretraining, acquiring sophisticated visual representations aligned with language. However, it remains underexplored whether these representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiahao Guo , Sinan Du , Jingfeng Yao , Wenyu Liu , Bo Li , Haoxiang Cao , Kun Gai , Chun Yuan , Kai Wu , Xinggang Wang

Recent advancements in Vision Transformers (ViT) have demonstrated exceptional results in various visual recognition tasks, owing to their ability to capture long-range dependencies in images through self-attention mechanisms. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Eduard Hogea , Darian M. Onchis , Ana Coporan , Adina Magda Florea , Codruta Istin

Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have become the de facto approach for discriminative vision-language representation learning. However, these models have limited language understanding, often exhibiting a "bag…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yassine Ouali , Adrian Bulat , Alexandros Xenos , Anestis Zaganidis , Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Training visual embeddings with labeled data supervision has been the de facto setup for representation learning in computer vision. Inspired by recent success of adopting masked image modeling (MIM) in self-supervised representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Kaifeng Chen , Daniel Salz , Huiwen Chang , Kihyuk Sohn , Dilip Krishnan , Mojtaba Seyedhosseini

Transformers are state-of-the-art deep learning models that are composed of stacked attention and point-wise, fully connected layers designed for handling sequential data. Transformers are not only ubiquitous throughout Natural Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Onur Kara , Arijit Sehanobish , Hector H Corzo

World models learned from high-dimensional visual observations allow agents to make decisions and plan directly in latent space, avoiding pixel-level reconstruction. However, recent latent predictive architectures (JEPAs), including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Leonardo F. Toso , Davit Shadunts , Yunyang Lu , Nihal Sharma , Donglin Zhan , Nam H. Nguyen , James Anderson

Recent advances in language modeling have witnessed the rise of highly desirable emergent capabilities, such as reasoning and in-context learning. However, vision models have yet to exhibit comparable progress in these areas. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jike Zhong , Yuxiang Lai , Xiaofeng Yang , Konstantinos Psounis

Vision language models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks, from logical reasoning to visual understanding. This opens the door to richer interaction with the world, for example robotic control. However, VLMs…

Vision Transformers (ViTs) often degrade under distribution shifts because they rely on spurious correlations, such as background cues, rather than semantically meaningful features. Existing regularization methods, typically relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yehonatan Elisha , Oren Barkan , Noam Koenigstein

Although an object may appear in numerous contexts, we often describe it in a limited number of ways. Language allows us to abstract away visual variation to represent and communicate concepts. Building on this intuition, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Mohamed El Banani , Karan Desai , Justin Johnson

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved substantial progress across a wide range of understanding and reasoning tasks, driven by large-scale image-text training aimed at multimodal fusion. Ideally, replacing a textual question with its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Feng Han , Zhixiong Zhang , Zheming Liang , Yibin Wang , Jiaqi Wang