arXiv:2607. 19128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) provide a unified representation space for textual and visual information, yet their potential as general-purpose backbones for graph-structured data remains largely unexplored.
By Jiayi Yang, Yifang Chen, Yuanfu Sun, Jiajin Liu, Qiaoyu Tan
The paper introduces ViD, a vision‑dominant gender bias mitigation framework for large vision‑language models. ViD uses causal analysis of attention patterns and dual mechanisms—backdoor adjustment and refined token selection—to suppress bias while preserving reasoning and generation quality. Experiments show a 14.7% reduction in gender bias on FACET and significant improvements on MS COCO image captioning, all without extra training overhead.
By Zhipeng Zhao, Zhaoqiang Wei, Peishun Liu, Youwei Zhao, Ruichun Tang
arXiv:2609.31456v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) often struggle with compositional reasoning tasks, but the reasons for this underperformance remain unclear. A common hyp...
By Mona Gandhi, Cenk Merih Olcay, Kuan-Chieh Lo, Santiago Castro, Christopher W. Myers, Srinivasan Parthasarathy
arXiv:2608.21443v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Estimating interpretable conditional-dependence structures from multimodal visual-linguistic features remains largely unexplored. We propose CM-GLasso...
By Fei Wang, Yutong Zhang, Yang Ye, Jinxian Chen, Wang Wenshuai, Xiong Wang
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
arXiv:2609.00709v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models produce fluent image descriptions but offer limited semantic control: users cannot reliably specify whether captions sho...
By Jongyeop Hyun, Taeyoung Kim, Hyounghun Kim
arXiv:2609.36680v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual reprogramming adapts pretrained models to downstream tasks by modifying their input and output interfaces while keeping the backbone fixed. In v...
By Zizhao Li, Chengyi Cai, Mohammed Yaqoob Ansari, Feng Liu, Joseph West, Kourosh Khoshelham
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.
By Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare, Jia Shi, Zhiqiu Lin, Deepak Pathak, John Galeotti, Deva Ramanan
arXiv:2606. 23763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work typically assesses vision--language consistency using attention distributions of answer-side tokens.
By Yiyang Chen, Yixin Tan, Binrui Shen
arXiv:2607. 22919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal embedding spaces in models like CLIP enable powerful capabilities such as semantic similarity retrieval and cross-modal zero-shot classification.
By Joseph Fioresi, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Pankaj Nathani, Mubarak Shah, Kushal Kafle
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
The paper introduces PRAISE, a test‑time adaptation framework for vision‑language model based person re‑identification. PRAISE constructs an Attribute‑Conditioned Subspace (ACS) from a bank of attribute prompts, reshaping query‑gallery affinities without requiring identity or attribute labels. Experiments on image‑to‑image and text‑to‑image ReID benchmarks show that PRAISE consistently improves retrieval performance over existing backbones and TTA baselines.
By Rajarshi Bhattacharya, Aryan Shukla, Shakeeb Murtaza, Christian Desrosiers, Jose Dolz, Maguelonne Heritier, Eric Granger