arXiv AI

PAND: Prompt-Aware Neighborhood Distillation for Lightweight Fine-Grained Visual Classification

arXiv:2602. 07768v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distilling knowledge from large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) into lightweight networks is crucial yet challenging in Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC), due to the reliance on fixed prompts and global alignment.

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 11

Grid-Preserving Knowledge Distillation: Transferring Convolutional Inductive Bias to Vision Transformers under Data Scarcity

Vision Transformers underperform convolutional networks when training data is scarce, and distilling convolutional inductive biases from a CNN teacher is an effective remedy that leaves the deployed model unchanged. General-purpose feature distillation, however, transfers little in this setting.

arXiv AI
Jun 11

LASA: A Weak Supervision Method for Open-Vocabulary Scene Sketch Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2606. 11837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-vocabulary scene sketch semantic segmentation aims to assign dense semantic labels to sparse line drawings based on flexible category vocabularies specified at inference time, without relying on pixel-level annotations during training.

By Liwen Yi, Xianlin Zhang, Yue Zhang, Yue Ming, Xueming Li