arXiv AI

Progressive Subset Selection and Cascaded Consistency for Unsupervised Vision-Language Model Adaptation

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Model Adaptation, an Effective Paradigm on Low-Quality Multimodal Data

arXiv:2609.10321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation offers an efficient route to transfer a task-adapted vision-language teacher to a compact student. The training target in curren...

By Hongyuan Zhang, Xianda Guo, Yanlun Peng, Qianlong Yang, Yubin Guo, Pinhan Fu, Mulin Chen, Xiaozhen Qiao, Ping Luo
arXiv AI
Aug 20

From Inference to Adaptation: A Unified Optimal Transport View of Vision Language Model

arXiv:2608. 18339v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capabilities yet remain sensitive to real-world distribution shifts during inference.

By Qi Yu, Zhichen Zeng, Katherine Tieu, Xiyuan Yang, Ruizhong Qiu, Yuchen Yan, Lihui Liu, Yanjun Zhao, Lingjie Chen, Jingrui He, Hanghang Tong
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

Adaptive Dual-Teacher Distillation with Subnetwork Rectification for Bridging Semantic Gaps in Black-Box Domain Adaptation

The paper introduces Adaptive Dual-Teacher Distillation with Subnetwork Rectification (DDSR), a method for black-box domain adaptation that fuses predictions from a black-box source model and a vision‑language model to generate reliable pseudo‑labels for the target domain. DDSR uses adaptive prediction fusion, subnetwork regularization to prevent overfitting, iterative refinement of pseudo‑labels and prompts, and class‑wise prototypes for self‑training. Experiments on several benchmark datasets show that DDSR outperforms existing state‑of‑the‑art approaches, even those that have access to source data or source model parameters.

By Zhe Zhang, Jing Li, Wanli Xue, Xu Cheng, Jianhua Zhang, Qinghua Hu, Shengyong Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Domain Recentering and Confidence-Weighted Prior Calibration for Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces Domain Recentering with Confidence Calibration (DRC), a training‑free technique that adapts CLIP to unlabeled target images by fitting a Gaussian mixture and subtracting a posterior‑weighted average of component means from each embedding. It further corrects residual class bias using a log‑prior adjustment based on confidence‑weighted predictions. DRC outperforms other methods, raising average accuracy on cross‑domain datasets by 4.13 and 5.07 points over zero‑shot CLIP for ViT‑B/16 and ResNet‑50, and maintains gains under ImageNet distribution shifts.

By Youngeun Seol, Jimin Shin, Heeseo Yoon, Uiwon Hwang
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Dual-Stream Semantic Guidance with Prototype Anchor Calibration for Source-Fully-Free Adaptation of Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces Dual-Stream Semantic Guidance (DSSG), a framework for Source‑Fully‑Free Domain Adaptation of Vision‑Language Models that mitigates dual semantic drift through a caption stream and a class‑anchor stream. It adds a Dynamic Cross‑Modal Knowledge Distillation module and a Prototype Anchor Calibration extension (DSSG‑PAC) to reduce computation while maintaining performance. Experiments show DSSG outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods and DSSG‑PAC cuts adaptation time by 18.9% with minimal loss in accuracy.

By Weiwei Xiang, Shun Peng, Guangyi Xiao, Hao Chen, Lei Yang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 24

Domain Recentering and Confidence-Weighted Prior Calibration for Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces Domain Recentering with Confidence Calibration (DRC), a training‑free technique that adapts CLIP to unlabeled target images by fitting a Gaussian mixture and applying posterior‑weighted mean subtraction, followed by a log‑prior correction based on confidence‑weighted predictions. DRC improves cross‑domain accuracy, surpassing zero‑shot CLIP by 4.13 and 5.07 points on ViT‑B/16 and ResNet‑50, and maintains gains under ImageNet distribution shifts.