arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2
AdaBoosting Text Prompts for Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2607. 00684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The classification accuracy of pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) relies on the quality of the text prompts.
What Does Prompt Learning Change? -A Natural-Language Concept Analysis of Vision-Language Models
Prompt learning modifies vision‑language models by optimizing continuous prompt vectors, yet the resulting prompts are hard to interpret in natural language. PromptSpLiCE is a post‑hoc method that rewrites each class‑conditioned text embedding as a sparse mix of concepts from a fixed dictionary, enabling a direct comparison of concept profiles before and after prompt learning. Across 11 image‑classification datasets, the method shows that only about 1.6 of the initial top‑10 concepts remain after learning, and that larger profile changes correlate with higher accuracy gains, while a derived gradient expression offers geometric insight into loss sensitivity.
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