arXiv:2609.18084v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Fine-tuning a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for a new deployment environment is expensive, yet most methods apply uniform-capacity adapters to e...
By Shahram Najam Syed, Arthur Jakobsson, Prayuj Sachdev, Jeffrey Ichnowski
MVC-Bench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate the calibration of vision‑language models (VLMs) and medical VLMs (Medical‑VLMs) for medical image classification. It tests calibration across robustness to modality, backbone, and domain shift; effectiveness of calibration strategies and prompt‑tuning methods; and stability under prompt‑template and random‑seed variations. The benchmark includes eight backbones, three medical modalities (fundus imaging, histopathology, chest X‑ray), and compares post‑hoc, train‑time, and zero‑shot calibration approaches, reporting accuracy, Expected Calibration Error (ECE), Maximum Calibration Error (MCE), and Adaptive Calibration Error (ACE) over 1,638 experiments, while also proposing a Multi‑Class Margin (MCM) regularization technique that improves ECE in most settings.
By Ashshak Sharifdeen, Shihab Aaqil Ahamed, Ufaq Khan, Muhammad Akhtar Munir Sujair Ibrahim, Mohamed Rafeek Mareer Ahamed, Yutong Xie, Imran Razzak, Muhammad Haris Khan
arXiv:2501. 19060v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, adapt effectively to downstream tasks through prompt tuning, but fine-tuning can misalign predictive confidence and accuracy, particularly on unseen classes.
By Song-Lin Lv, Yu-Yang Chen, Zhi Zhou, Lan-Zhe Guo
The paper introduces a Vision‑Language Model (VLM) that acts as a diagnostic agent to adapt a detect‑to‑track system to new domains without target‑domain labels. By inspecting rendered tracking outputs, the VLM identifies failure modes and iteratively recommends parameter updates, recovering a significant portion of performance lost when transferring hyperparameters from a source domain. Experiments on MOT17→MOT20 show the VLM tuner restores 67.8% of the lost headroom, while Bayesian optimization with proxy objectives performs poorly under large domain shifts.
By Daniel Davila, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Mike Cochran
arXiv:2606. 29484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern deepfake detectors are rarely consumed as bare classifiers.
By Md Anas Biswas
arXiv:2609.01244v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Every supervised fine-tuning run forces the same chain of decisions, such as learning rate, batch size, LoRA or full fine-tuning, how many epochs, whic...
By Charles O'Neill, Mudith Jayasekara, Harry Partridge
MVC-Bench is a calibration-focused benchmark for medical vision‑language models, evaluating how well these models express confidence across different modalities, backbones, and domain shifts. It tests robustness to modality, backbone, and domain changes, the effectiveness of calibration and prompt‑tuning strategies, and stability under prompt‑template and random‑seed variations. The benchmark includes 1638 experiments, reporting accuracy and Expected Calibration Error (ECE) along with other calibration metrics, and introduces a simple train‑time calibration method, Multi‑Class Margin (MCM) regularization, that achieves the lowest ECE in most settings.
arXiv:2606. 28654v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep Neural Network (DNN) classifiers suffer from poor calibration when their softmax outputs (predictive confidence) deviate from the empirical likelihoods.
By Thiru Thillai Nadarasar Bahavan, Sachith Seneviratne, Saman Halgamuge
arXiv:2606. 31371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When large language model (LLM) agents adapt their behavior through evaluator feedback, systematic evaluator biases propagate into the agent's learned strategy distribution - a phenomenon termed evaluator preference coupling.
By Zewen Liu
arXiv:2605. 30188v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable probability estimates are critical in many machine learning applications, yet modern classifiers are often poorly calibrated.
By Eug\`ene Berta, David Holzm\"uller, Francis Bach, Michael I. Jordan
The paper introduces the Capability-Driven Multimodal Scaling Law, a cross-family framework that predicts vision-language model (VLM) benchmark accuracy from a low-dimensional textual capability score extracted via PCA. By training over 150 VLMs on 34 large language models across seven families, the authors demonstrate that the law accurately extrapolates transfer rates from 8B to 72B‑parameter backbones, predicts full training trajectories, and generalizes to unseen model families. The study also reveals actionable insights, such as certain textual benchmarks negatively correlating with multimodal performance and base LLMs outperforming instruction-tuned counterparts as VLM backbones due to higher absorption rates.
By Ziran Li, Qiang Wang, Zhengyu Chen, Shanglin Lei, Borun Chen, Jingang Wang, Xunliang Cai
arXiv:2608. 15516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in multimodal understanding and generation.
By Pengyu Wang, Baochen Xiong, Xiaoshan Yang, Yifan Xu, Zhang Qimeng, Haifeng Chen, Changsheng Xu