arXiv:2606. 14299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have become a standard backbone for open-vocabulary recognition, yet their zero-shot predictions remain vulnerable to distribution shifts encountered at deployment.
By Jiazhen Huang, Xiao Chen, Zhiming Liu, Yaru Sun, Jingyan Jiang, Zhi Wang
arXiv:2606. 06943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP achieve strong zero-shot recognition but remain highly fragile under adversarial perturbations.
By Sunoh Kim, Daeho Um
arXiv:2607. 00684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The classification accuracy of pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) relies on the quality of the text prompts.
By Seokhee Jin, Changhwan Sung, Sunung Mun, Hoyoung Kim, Jungseul Ok
arXiv:2608. 01672v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective long-context modeling is not merely about retaining more of the past, but about preserving the information that may prove relevant later.
By Zixuan Wang, Xingyu Dang, Rui-Jie Zhu, Zixin Wen, Hengyu Fu, Wenhao Chai, Jason D. Lee
We find that vision-language models are sensitive to a specific semantically irrelevant change: the order in which the image and question are presented. Across three models and three benchmarks, image first prompting consistently outperforms question-first prompting, revealing a repeatable modality order failure.
arXiv:2605. 03403v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has recently shown strong performance in post-training large language models and vision-language models.
By Yujun Li, Hongyuan Zhang, Yuan Yuan
The paper introduces Test-Time Logit Prompting (TLP), a lightweight framework that adapts vision-language models to missing-modality inputs without accessing source training data. TLP optimizes logit prompts using uncertainty-aware adjustments and modality-complete consistency regularization, thereby maintaining prediction confidence and semantic consistency. Experiments on various benchmarks show that TLP improves recognition performance by up to 8% while requiring only a few hundred tunable parameters and minimal test-time optimization steps.
By Taixi Chen, Nancy Guo
arXiv:2608.29395v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language models such as CLIP and SigLIP provide strong zero-shot recognition, but their predictions can degrade when deployed on target data tha...
By Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Run Wang, Mert D. Pes\'e
The paper introduces selective adaptation for vision‑language models, questioning whether test‑time adaptation (TTA) should always be applied. By analyzing per‑sample predictions before and after adaptation, the authors find that many adaptations are negligible or even harmful, flipping correct predictions. They propose Cross‑Augmentation Similarity (CAS), which skips adaptation when predictions across augmented views are highly similar, achieving comparable or better accuracy while reducing adaptation by up to 85%.
By Siru Jiang, Yuwei Liang, Jian Liang, Ran He, Tieniu Tan
The paper introduces SubTTA, a test-time adaptation method for vision‑language models that aligns the semantic subspaces of visual and textual modalities to improve zero‑shot predictions. It addresses two issues: the modality gap caused by distribution shifts and visual nuisance that masks task‑specific semantics. By minimizing chordal distance between principal subspaces and projecting visual features onto a task‑specific textual subspace, SubTTA refines decision boundaries and achieves an average 2.24% improvement over existing TTA methods.
By Zhichen Zeng, Wenxuan Bao, Xiao Lin, Ruizhong Qiu, Tianxin Wei, Xuying Ning, Yuchen Yan, Chen Luo, Monica Xiao Cheng, Jingrui He, Hanghang Tong
Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable performance by leveraging complementary information from large-scale image-text pairs. However, missing-modality inputs are commonly encountered...
Deep neural nets achieve remarkable performance when training and test data share the same distribution, but this assumption frequently breaks in real-world deployment, where data undergoes continual distributional shifts. Continual Test-Time Adaptation (CTTA) addresses this challenge by adapting pretrained models to non-stationary target distributions on-the-fly, without access to source data or labeled targets, while mitigating two critical failure modes: catastrophic forgetting of source knowledge and error accumulation from noisy pseudo-labels over extended time horizons.