arXiv AI

Attributes Should Come from Images, Not Class Names: Distribution-Conditioned Attribute Selection for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607. 18695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A popular route to interpretable zero-shot classification asks a large language model (LLM) to describe each class name and prompts CLIP with the resulting descriptors.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

CARPRT: Class-Aware Zero-Shot Prompt Reweighting for Black-Box Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607. 14125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) enable zero-shot image classification by computing the similarity score between an image and textual descriptions, typically formed by inserting a class label (e.

By Ruijiang Dong, Zesheng Ye, Jianzhong Qi, Lei Feng, Feng Liu, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 3

Visual Distribution Anchoring for Efficient Prompt Tuning

arXiv:2607. 28967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompt tuning adapts vision--language models with few trainable parameters, but existing approaches trade off efficiency and adaptation: static textual prompts can overfit source classes, image-conditioned prompts add per-instance computation, and multimodal tuning modifies the visual branch.

By Pouya Parsa, Raoof Zare Moayedi, Seongjin Choi
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4

SeCo-SBIR: Semantically Consistent Prompt Learning for Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval

Adapting CLIP for zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) via prompt learning faces a fundamental tension: the model must bridge the sketch-photo domain gap through task-specific adaptation, yet the added flexibility risks overfitting to seen training categories and eroding CLIP's zero-shot generalization. We present SeCo-SBIR, a semantically consistent prompt learning framework that resolves this tension from both sides.

arXiv AI
Jul 9

When Prompts Ignore Structure: Graph-Based Attribute Reasoning for Calibrated VLMs

arXiv:2607. 07395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable confidence estimation remains a key limitation of test-time adaptation in vision-language models (VLMs), where prompt tuning improves zero-shot accuracy but often degrades calibration due to entropy-driven overconfidence.

By Tanay Sodha, Aditya Sharma, Ramya Hebbalaguppe, Vinti Agarwal, Pranav Murthy Yeluripaty
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Beyond Scalar Distances: Semantic Attribute Gradients from Frozen MLLMs for Visual Embeddings

arXiv:2606. 15134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision encoders for retrieval are typically trained with class-label supervision: each training pair reduces to a scalar that uniformly pushes the embedding apart or pulls it together, as if every visual attribute either differed or matched.

By Shubhang Bhatnagar, Dheeraj Baiju, Narendra Ahuja