arXiv:2608. 18339v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capabilities yet remain sensitive to real-world distribution shifts during inference.
By Qi Yu, Zhichen Zeng, Katherine Tieu, Xiyuan Yang, Ruizhong Qiu, Yuchen Yan, Lihui Liu, Yanjun Zhao, Lingjie Chen, Jingrui He, Hanghang Tong
arXiv:2607. 18454v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantifying the risk of rare failures in language models, such as those triggered by adversarial distribution shifts or very large-scale deployments, requires estimating probabilities far too small for random sampling.
By Nikita Y. Parulekar, Anqi Liu
arXiv:2507. 18043v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inference-time steering methods offer a lightweight alternative to fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) by modifying internal activations at test time without updating model weights.
By Duy Nguyen, Archiki Prasad, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal
arXiv:2610.07903v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Adapting vision-language models to downstream tasks has achieved remarkable success by leveraging pseudo-labels generated from unlabeled data. Existing...
By Keliang Chen, Yaxin Hou, Hui Liu, Yuheng Jia
The paper introduces selective adaptation for vision‑language models, questioning whether test‑time adaptation (TTA) should always be applied. By analyzing per‑sample predictions before and after adaptation, the authors find that many adaptations are negligible or even harmful, flipping correct predictions. They propose Cross‑Augmentation Similarity (CAS), which skips adaptation when predictions across augmented views are highly similar, achieving comparable or better accuracy while reducing adaptation by up to 85%.
By Siru Jiang, Yuwei Liang, Jian Liang, Ran He, Tieniu Tan
arXiv:2503. 08038v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we delve deeper into the Kullback-Leibler (KL) Divergence loss and mathematically prove that it is equivalent to the Decoupled Kullback-Leibler (DKL) Divergence loss that consists of (1) a weighted Mean Square Error (wMSE) loss and (2) a Cross-Entropy loss incorporating soft labels.
By Jiequan Cui, Beier Zhu, Qingshan Xu, Zhuotao Tian, Xiaojuan Qi, Bei Yu, Hanwang Zhang, Richang Hong