When Semantics Saturate or Emerge: Adaptation-Conditional Semantic Utility in Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning
Read the original on arXiv Computer Vision →The paper investigates whether language prompts selected by zero‑shot accuracy remain effective after visual adaptation in source‑free cross‑domain few‑shot learning. Using a paired protocol, the authors compare generic class‑name templates with detailed class descriptions before and after Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) on datasets such as EuroSAT, CropDisease, ISIC, and ChestX. They identify two regimes: semantic saturation, where detailed prompts are already useful before adaptation, and semantic emergence, where detailed prompts become more useful only after visual representation updates, driven by changes in prediction patterns.
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