arXiv Computer Vision

When is Test-Time Adaptation Identifiable From Unlabeled Evidence?

arXiv:2609. 11235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time adaptation (TTA) offers many ways to update a deployed model without labels, but choosing the wrong update can make a strong source model worse.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

What Drives Test-Time Adaptation for CLIP? A Controlled Empirical Study from an Update Perspective

arXiv:2606. 14299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have become a standard backbone for open-vocabulary recognition, yet their zero-shot predictions remain vulnerable to distribution shifts encountered at deployment.

By Jiazhen Huang, Xiao Chen, Zhiming Liu, Yaru Sun, Jingyan Jiang, Zhi Wang
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Adapting Without Gradients: Affine Statistics Transport and What Its Certificate Can Tell You

The paper introduces CASTER, a gradient‑free test‑time adaptation method that keeps the model frozen by storing source class statistics in a discriminative subspace and applying an affine transformation estimated from target‑batch moments. CASTER avoids backward passes, optimizer state, and large feature banks, outperforming k‑NN on frozen features in most backbone‑dataset settings while using far less memory. The authors also propose a residual‑to‑margin transportability certificate that flags when affine transport is unreliable, and demonstrate that gating based on this certificate can recover performance losses.

By Salim Khazem, Ibrahim Mohamed Serouis