arXiv:2609.24276v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Hyperbolic vision-language models (VLMs) represent image and text features in a geometry naturally suited to hierarchy, but their adaptation to downstr...
By Andro Erdelez, Pascal Mettes, Behzad Bozorgtabar
arXiv:2603. 26798v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language model (VLM) encoders such as CLIP enable strong retrieval and zero-shot classification in a shared image-text embedding space, yet the semantic organization of this space is rarely inspected.
By Gesina Schwalbe, Mert Keser, Moritz Bayerkuhnlein, Edgar Heinert, Annika M\"utze, Marvin Keller, Sparsh Tiwari, Georgii Mikriukov, Diedrich Wolter, Jae Hee Lee, Matthias Rottmann
arXiv:2511. 10260v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) remains a challenging task due to subtle inter-class differences and large intra-class variations.
By Yongji Zhang, Siqi Li, Kuiyang Huang, Yue Gao, Yu Jiang
The paper introduces Lens, a training‑free framework that aligns multimodal representations with the semantic perspective required by downstream tasks. Lens uses a task‑specific readout phrase to anchor the perspective and then aggregates token states after the full input, ensuring the extracted representation reflects task‑conditioned evidence integration rather than generic salient content. The method achieves a Precision@1 of 63.9 across 36 MMEB datasets, outperforming the nearest training‑free baseline by 10.2 points.
By Xinran Liu, Shouqian Shi, Yixian Chen, Ruizhi Chen, Xin-Wei Yao, Sheng Zhong
arXiv:2512. 15748v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual Species Recognition (VSR) is a fundamental task in scientific disciplines that require species-level identification, including ecology, palynology, evolutionary biology, systematics, and phylogenetics.
By Tian Liu, Anwesha Basu, James Caverlee, Shu Kong
arXiv:2608.29313v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: CLIP-like vision-language models (VLMs) trained with contrastive objectives learn strong global image-text representations, but their Euclidean embed...
By Matin Mahmood, Antonio Rueda-Toicen, Mohamed ElBassat, Seifeldin Elkerdany, Weixing Wang, Gerard de Melo