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
arXiv:2607. 04548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Novel category discovery aims to identify unseen classes from unlabeled data by transferring knowledge from labeled categories, but most existing methods perform discovery in opaque latent feature spaces.
By Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin, Yang Zhou, KC Santosh, Longwei Wang
arXiv:2609.12552v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Open-vocabulary detection accepts any class list at inference, and promptable segmentation returns regions without class names: the taxonomy has left t...
By Ma\"elic Neau
arXiv:2610.09502v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) recognizes categories unseen during training through textual category queries, yet achieving strong generalization with...
By Yupeng Zhang, Ziyi Zhao, Juntao Cheng, Sheng Wang, Ningnan Guo, Ruize Han, Liang Wan
arXiv:2601. 21944v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The widespread adoption of deep learning models in computer vision has intensified concerns about interpretability.
By Konstantinos P. Panousis, Diego Marcos
arXiv:2607. 23052v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dual-encoder vision-language models (VLMs) expose a similarity interface that enables zero-shot retrieval but fails compositional constraints: queries like "umbrella and no person" retrieve images containing both, even when concept detection is reliable.
By Sultan Alshehri, Zhantao Yang, Han Zhang, Marios Savvides
arXiv:2503. 12999v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in various multi-modal tasks.
By Ruichuan An, Kai Zeng, Ming Lu, Sihan Yang, Renrui Zhang, Huitong Ji, Hao Liang, Wentao Zhang
arXiv:2610.09802v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Concept-based vision models represent images through an intermediate layer of human-inspectable concepts, so what a model relies on can be traced to...
By Adam Pardyl, Siddhartha Gairola, Sukrut Rao, Adam Wr\'obel, Bartosz Zieli\'nski, Bernt Schiele, Dawid Rymarczyk
arXiv:2606. 29069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept-based Explainable AI (C-XAI) seeks human-understandable explanations grounded in semantic concepts, yet validation is limited by the scarcity of fine-grained concept annotations.
By Darian Fern\'andez-Guti\'errez, Rafael Bello, Marilyn Bello, Natalia D\'iaz-Rodr\'iguez
arXiv:2606. 30498v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human decision-making interprets the world through high-level concepts, such as recognizing a bird by its belly color.
By Laines Schmalwasser, Jan Blunk, Niklas Penzel, Julia Niebling, Joachim Denzler
Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) recognizes categories unseen during training through textual category queries, yet achieving strong generalization with real-time efficiency remains challenging. Beyond...
The paper introduces G2D, a training‑free framework that combines a discriminative model (CLIP) for broad candidate retrieval with a generative vision‑language model for fine‑grained, image‑grounded verification. By using CLIP’s top‑K shortlist and a structured prior from candidate names and probabilities, G2D focuses generative reasoning on uncertain samples, achieving an average accuracy of 68.85% across eight benchmarks—higher than both CLIP alone (59.35%) and the standalone generative model (63.11%). The approach also adapts to various generator configurations and extends to other models such as DCLIP, WaffleCLIP, and CuPL.
By Zehua Hao, Fang Liu, Qinliang Wang, Yaoyang Du, Xinyan Huang, Puhua Chen