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In targeted adversarial attacks on vision models, the selection of the target label is a critical yet often overlooked determinant of attack success. This target label corresponds to the class that the attacker aims to force the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Katarzyna Filus , Jorge M. Cruz-Duarte

Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (SF-CDFSL) focuses on fine-tuning with limited training data from target domains (e.g., medical or satellite images), where Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP and SigLIP have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhenyu Zhang , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li , Guangyao Chen

As data requirements continue to grow, efficient learning increasingly depends on the curation and distillation of high-value data rather than brute-force scaling of model sizes. In the case of a hyperspectral image (HSI), the challenge is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abhiroop Chatterjee , Susmita Ghosh

Active learning aims to reduce annotation cost by selectively querying informative samples for supervision under a limited labeling budget. In this work, we investigate how vision-language models (VLMs) can be leveraged to further reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Phuong Ngoc Nguyen , Kaito Shiku , Ryoma Bise , Seiichi Uchida , Shinnosuke Matsuo

Learning generalizable reward functions is a core challenge in embodied intelligence. Recent work leverages contrastive vision language models (VLMs) to obtain dense, domain-agnostic rewards without human supervision. These methods adapt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Simon Roy , Samuel Barbeau , Giovanni Beltrame , Christian Desrosiers , Nicolas Thome

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

Prompt learning has become one of the most efficient paradigms for adapting large pre-trained vision-language models to downstream tasks. Current state-of-the-art methods, like CoOp and ProDA, tend to adopt soft prompts to learn an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Sifan Long , Zhen Zhao , Junkun Yuan , Zichang Tan , Jiangjiang Liu , Luping Zhou , Shengsheng Wang , Jingdong Wang

Pre-trained vision-language models have inspired much research on few-shot learning. However, with only a few training images, there exist two crucial problems: (1) the visual feature distributions are easily distracted by class-irrelevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Runqi Wang , Hao Zheng , Xiaoyue Duan , Jianzhuang Liu , Yuning Lu , Tian Wang , Songcen Xu , Baochang Zhang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on various visual tasks, yet they still require adaptation on downstream tasks to achieve optimal performance. Recently, various adaptation technologies have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chuanming Wang , Henming Mao , Huanhuan Zhang , Huiyuan Fu , Huadong Ma

Recent studies on AI security have highlighted the vulnerability of Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models to subtle yet intentionally designed perturbations in images and texts. Investigating multimodal systems' robustness via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Haonan Zheng , Wen Jiang , Xinyang Deng , Wenrui Li

Recent research suggests that Vision Language Models (VLMs) often rely on inherent biases learned during training when responding to queries about visual properties of images. These biases are exacerbated when VLMs are asked highly specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Saurav Sengupta , Nazanin Moradinasab , Jiebei Liu , Donald E. Brown

Recent progress in the few-shot adaptation of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has further pushed their generalization capabilities, at the expense of just a few labeled samples within the target downstream task. However, this promising,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Maxime Zanella , Ismail Ben Ayed

Aligning visual features with language embeddings is a key challenge in vision-language models (VLMs). The performance of such models hinges on having a good connector that maps visual features generated by a vision encoder to a shared…

Reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) has recently attracted significant attention due to its broad applicability across diverse downstream tasks. However, it remains unclear whether the superior performance of VLMs stems from genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yige Xu , Yongjie Wang , Zizhuo Wu , Kaisong Song , Jun Lin , Zhiqi Shen

Prompt learning has become a dominant paradigm for adapting vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP to downstream tasks without modifying pretrained weights. While extending prompts to both vision and text encoders across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Sajjad Ghiasvand , Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

Existing adversarial attacks on vision-language models (VLMs) can steer model outputs toward attacker-specified target responses, but their effectiveness often degrades when the same perturbed input is paired with different textual queries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhiqiang Wang , Dongrui Liu , Yan Li , Zonghao Ying , Wei Xue , Wenhan Luo , Yike Guo

Large vision-language contrastive models (VLCMs), such as CLIP, have become foundational, demonstrating remarkable success across a variety of downstream tasks. Despite their advantages, these models, akin to other foundational systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Haocheng Dai , Sarang Joshi

The robustness of multimodal deep learning models to realistic changes in the input text is critical for their applicability to important tasks such as text-to-image retrieval and cross-modal entailment. To measure robustness, several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shivaen Ramshetty , Gaurav Verma , Srijan Kumar

Vision-language models (VLMs) allow to embed texts and images in a shared representation space. However, it has been shown that these models are subject to a modality gap phenomenon meaning there exists a clear separation between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 François Role , Sébastien Meyer , Victor Amblard

Vision-language models (VLMs) (e.g. CLIP, LLaVA) are trained on large-scale, lightly curated web datasets, leading them to learn unintended correlations between semantic concepts and unrelated visual signals. These associations degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Maan Qraitem , Piotr Teterwak , Kate Saenko , Bryan A. Plummer