arXiv Computer Vision

Not All Patches Are Equally Forgettable: Spatially Localized Domain Unlearning in Vision-Language Models

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 30

Disentangling Spurious Correlations in Vision-Language-Action Models via Predicting Domain-Invariant Latent Lookahead

arXiv:2609.37165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remain brittle under visual distribution shifts, often relying on spurious correlations tied to domain-specific f...

By Junghyun Kim, Ngseo Kim, ChungWoo Lee, Seoyeon Lee, Woo-Jeong Baek, Adam Zhou, Chip Huyen, Jun-Ki Lee, Gi-Cheon Kang, Byoung-Tak Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

Beyond Domain-Level Adaptation: Margin-Oriented Semantic-Appearance Interaction Correction for Personalized Federated Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces MOSAIC, a method for personalized federated vision‑language models that addresses domain heterogeneity by focusing on class‑specific cross‑domain residuals. It constructs a decision‑aware harmfulness score to identify residuals that hurt image‑text decision margins, then uses a low‑rank residual adapter with shared class factors and private domain factors, an image‑conditioned gate, and harmful‑pair‑aware reweighting to refine local updates. Experiments on Office31, OfficeHome, and DomainNet100 show consistent improvements in macro‑client top‑1 accuracy across various domain‑shift scenarios.

By Wentao Yue, Qingyu Mao, Tianyou Lai, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Qilei Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Continual Learning with Vision-Language Models via Semantic-Geometry Preservation

arXiv:2603. 12055v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual learning of pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) is prone to catastrophic forgetting, yet current approaches adapt to new tasks without explicitly preserving the cross-modal semantic geometry inherited from pretraining and previous stages, allowing new-task supervision to induce geometric distortion.

By Chiyuan He, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng, Runtong Zhang, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Information-Regularized Attention for Visual-Centric Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 00434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have become a paradigm for multimodal learning, yet remain unstable due to object hallucination, weak visual grounding, and catastrophic forgetting after full-parameter instruction tuning.

By Guohao Sun, Xiaofang Wang, Yash Patel, Mengchen Liu, Zhiqiang Tao, Praveen Krishnan
arXiv AI
Jun 24

Evaluating the Interpretability of Sparse Autoencoders with Concept Annotations

arXiv:2606. 24716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used to extract interpretable concepts from vision and vision language models, yet existing evaluation methods largely rely on proxy metrics or qualitative inspection rather than measuring semantic correspondence.

By Jonas Klotz, Cassio F. Dantas, Pallavi Jain, Diego Marcos, Beg\"um Demir