Vision-language models exhibit remarkable zero-shot capabilities but suffer significant performance degradation under distribution shifts. While test-time adaptation (TTA) via Low-Rank Adaptation offers a parameter-efficient solution, we identify a fundamental bottleneck in current methods: the reliance on static rank configurations.
arXiv:2607. 11940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As the scale of large pre-trained models continues to grow, fine-tuning them under limited memory budgets has become increasingly challenging.
By Gengyu Zhang, Haiyin Ran, Zhengbao He, Yuhang Liu, Hanling Tian, Zhehao Huang, Xiaolin Huang
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:2505. 12532v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficiently adapting large pretrained models is critical under tight compute and memory budgets.
By Ahmet Bilican, M. Ak{\i}n Y{\i}lmaz, A. Murat Tekalp, R. G\"okberk Cinbi\c{s}
arXiv:2509. 25136v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Activation-aware low-rank factorization techniques yield strong compression results but are generally confined to linear layers, while existing whitening-based theory typically makes an implicit full-rank assumption on activations.
By David Gonz\'alez-Mart\'inez
arXiv:2606. 00746v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision foundation models are bottlenecked by the quadratic cost of self-attention, which limits usable resolution and increases the cost of large-scale pretraining.
By Yitong Jiang, Hongjun Wang, Collin McCarthy, Hanrong Ye, David Wehr, Xinhao Li, Qi Dou, Tianfan Xue, Ka Chun Cheung, Simon See, Wonmin Byeon, Ke Chen, Kai Han, Jinwei Gu, Hongxu Yin, Pavlo Molchanov, Jan Kautz, Sifei Liu
arXiv:2606. 29579v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial reasoning remains a persistent challenge for many vision language models (VLMs), and improving it typically requires fine-tuning with substantial additional parameters.
By Rahul Chowdhury, Timothy A Rupprecht, Xuan Shen, Pu Zhao, Yanzhi Wang
arXiv:2511. 11421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to continually learn new categories without forgetting previously acquired knowledge.
By Lan Li, Tao Hu, Da-Wei Zhou, Jia-Qi Yang, Han-Jia Ye, De-Chuan Zhan
arXiv:2608. 16384v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Universal visual representations require adaptation mechanisms that adapt across heterogeneous domains without fragmenting knowledge into domain-specific modules.
By Suraj Yadav
arXiv:2606. 13896v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised geospatial foundation models (GeoFMs) learn transferable representations from remote sensing data, but their downstream behavior is difficult to characterize.
By Julia Romero, Qin Lv, Morteza Karimzadeh
arXiv:2606. 08156v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) achieve strong performance but suffer from high computational costs due to quadratic self-attention complexity.
By Kyumin Choi, Ikbeom Jang
arXiv:2604. 00086v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The field of computer vision has experienced significant advancements through scalable vision encoders and multimodal pre-training frameworks.
By Eugene Lee, Ting-Yu Chang, Jui-Huang Tsai, Jiajie Diao, Chen-Yi Lee