arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.02101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) lets institutions train a shared model without exchanging data, and Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) makes this practical at scale by communicating only compact low-rank updates. Biomedical imaging is a compelling setting for this c
arxiv3d ago
arXiv:2609.00444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group relative policy optimization for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) typically uses a fixed importance-sampling (IS) ratio clipping boundary across all rollouts. We identify a key limitation: rare correct rollouts on harder pr
arxiv3d ago
arXiv:2609.01103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reducing the modality gap between image and text representations in CLIP is widely expected to improve cross-modal alignment and downstream performance. However, a smaller average image-text gap does not necessarily lead to consistent accuracy gains. W
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2502.18176v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we aim to build an adversarially robust zero-shot image classifier. We ground our work on CLIP, a vision-language pre-trained encoder model that can perform zero-shot classification by matching an image with text prompts ``a ph
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2608.31074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a lightweight two-stage framework for real-time video anomaly detection. The first stage employs YOLO v11n-pose to detect persons and extract seventeen skeletal keypoints in a single forward pass. The second stage encodes each cropped pers
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2608.30427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding speeds up generation with an efficient draft model (drafter) that proposes tokens for a target model to verify in one pass, preserving the target's output distribution. High-acceptance block-diffusion drafters such as DFlash and DF
arxiv4d ago
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 embeddings and global pooling fail to encode relational structure such as part-whole and parent-child rela
techcrunch5d ago
The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.
arxivAug 27
arXiv:2608.24467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced general product understanding, they implicitly encode product information into global embeddings, thereby limiting their ability to capture fine-grained attributes. This limitation
arxivJul 31
arXiv:2507.05113v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are susceptible to backdoor attacks, where adversaries poison training data to implant backdoor into the victim model. Current backdoor defenses on poisoned data often suffer from high computational costs or low ef
arxivJul 31
arXiv:2607.26107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense vision-language understanding, including object localization, region recognition, and open-vocabulary semantic segmentation, requires associating language concepts with spatially grounded visual regions. CLIP provides a strong foundation for th
arxivJul 29
arXiv:2607.25921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we study the use of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for anomaly detection in an agent-driven game Quality Assurance (QA) pipeline focusing on geometry clipping. In this evaluation, a custom exploration agent navigates a game level to coll
arxivJul 29
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. Existing VLM-specific calibration metho
arxivJul 28
arXiv:2607.23368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are demonstrating significant capabilities in medical tasks like radiology analysis, yet providing faithful and interpretable explanations remains a key consideration for their responsible deployment in clinical settings
arxivJul 28
arXiv:2607.23271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive vision-language models such as CLIP map semantically opposite phrases (e.g., "a dog" vs. "not a dog") to nearly identical embeddings, rendering them insensitive to negation. We attribute this failure to a phenomenon we call Representation
arxivJul 27
arXiv:2411.19715v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We describe Forensics Adapter, an adapter network designed to transform CLIP into an effective and generalizable face forgery detector. Although CLIP is highly versatile, adapting it for face forgery detection is non-trivial as forgery-relate
arxivJul 22
arXiv:2607.18885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kernel-based alignment of CLIP toward a vision centric teacher such as DINOv2 (KUEA) improves CLIP's visual representations while preserving text-encoder compatibility, using a fixed trade-off weight tuned on curated ImageNet-1K. We ask whether this tr
arxivJul 21
arXiv:2502.11034v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Loss spikes remain a persistent obstacle in large-scale language model pretraining. While previous research has attempted to identify the root cause of loss spikes by investigating individual factors, we observe that, in practice, such spikes are t
arxivJul 20
arXiv:2604.16370v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Decoding natural language from non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) remains constrained by low signal-to-noise ratio and limited information bandwidth. This raises a central question: can sentence-level language be reliably recovered fro
arxivJul 20
arXiv:2502.06818v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent works modify CLIP to perform open-vocabulary semantic segmentation in a training-free manner (TF-OVSS). In vanilla CLIP, patch-wise image representations mainly encode homogeneous image-level properties, which hinders the application of CLIP
arxivJul 16
arXiv:2607.13660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) representations form a semantic embedding space governed by cosine similarity, reflecting an intrinsic hyperspherical geometry. However, existing probabilistic interpretations typically rely on Gaussian ass
arxivJul 14
arXiv:2607.11008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-vocabulary dense perception (OVDP) aims to localize objects unseen during training by leveraging textual knowledge. Despite the remarkable progress of recent CLIP-based approaches, we identify a critical limitation: synonym-induced grounding inc
arxivJul 14
arXiv:2607.10169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant paradigm for enhancing LLMs' reasoning capabilities. However, RL algorithms with PPO-Clip are inherently limited by exploration collapse. Subsequent works remain primarily heuristic and fail to identi
arxivJul 10
arXiv:2607.08104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a cornerstone of modern optimization. While its performance under heavy-tailed noise is often addressed through specialized modifications such as gradient clipping or normalization, we investigate a more fundamental
arxivJul 2
arXiv:2607.00423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision language models (VLMs) demonstrate strong zero-shot performance, but often perpetuate social stereotypes in person-centric queries, yielding skewed demographic distributions. Current debiasing methods apply uniform bias corrections across all in
thevergeJun 30
Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-second vertical AI clips based on the sources you upload to the app. The example shared by Google detai
arxivJun 30
arXiv:2606.29586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language foundation models have shown strong potential in medical image analysis. Although foundation models for ultrasound imaging have recently emerged, the domain remains particularly challenging due to severe speckle noise, acquisition var
arxivJun 30
arXiv:2601.12282v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The functions of different regions of the human brain are closely linked to their distinct cytoarchitecture, which is defined by the spatial arrangement and morphology of the cells. Identifying brain regions by their cytoarchitecture enables
arxivJun 27
arXiv:2606.26794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: CLIP and its variants are widely adopted visual backbones in multimodal systems, but their pretraining remains dominated by descriptive image-text alignment. As downstream applications increasingly demand visually grounded commonsense inference and c
arxivJun 25
arXiv:2511.11421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to continually learn new categories without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. Vision-language models such as CLIP offer strong transferable representations via multi-modal supervision, making them
arxivJun 24
arXiv:2606.23932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is the standard policy-gradient algorithm for on-policy reinforcement learning. The literature presents it in two forms, a clipped surrogate that bounds the importance ratio between successive policies and a Kullback-
arxivJun 24
arXiv:2605.02701v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a robust gradient estimator based on per-sample gradient clipping and analyze its properties both theoretically and empirically. We show that the resulting method, per-sample clipped SGD (PS-Clip-SGD), achieves optimal in-expectati
arxivJun 17
arXiv:2606.17815v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training models are widely reused across downstream interfaces, including feature extraction, retrieval, reranking, and selection. Existing CLIP backdoor, however, usually validate attacks on a small attack-native task,
arxivJun 15
arXiv:2606.14299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have become a standard backbone for open-vocabulary recognition, yet their zero-shot predictions remain vulnerable to distribution shifts encountered at deployment. Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) has recently be
arxivJun 12
arXiv:2506.01396v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Differential privacy (DP) has become an essential framework for privacy-preserving machine learning. Existing DP learning methods, however, often have disparate impacts on model predictions, e.g., for minority groups. Gradient clipping, which is of
arxivJun 5
arXiv:2606.05435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) has become the standard framework for privacy-preserving machine learning, yet its reliance on a fixed gradient clipping threshold to limit sensitivity remains a significant practical limitati
arxivJun 4
arXiv:2602.05657v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The study of tail behaviour of SGD-induced processes has been attracting a lot of interest, due to offering strong guarantees with respect to individual runs of an algorithm. While many works provide high-probability guarantees, quantifying the err
arxivJun 2
arXiv:2605.13178v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In large vision-language models, visual tokens typically constitute the majority of input tokens, leading to substantial computational overhead. To address this, recent studies have explored pruning redundant or less informative visual tokens
arxivJun 2
arXiv:2606.02111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced to process video inputs, concerns have emerged about their potential for malicious misuse. Prior jailbreak studies have shown that safety alignment in MLLMs can be bypassed through visual inpu
arxivJun 2
arXiv:2512.12997v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: CLIP delivers strong zero-shot classification but remains highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Prior adversarial fine-tuning work primarily matches predicted logits between clean and adversarial examples, which overlooks uncertainty cali
arxivJun 2
arXiv:2606.00172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), especially Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), has been widely used to improve reasoning in large language models. However, outcome-level rewards provide only sparse supervision, and group-r
arxivJun 1
arXiv:2603.19862v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models like CLIP are extensively used for inter-modal tasks which involve both visual and text modalities. However, when the individual modality encoders are applied to inherently intra-modal tasks like image-to-image retrieva
arxivMay 29
arXiv:2603.14315v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While spectral-based optimizers like Muon operate directly on the spectrum of updates, standard adaptive methods such as AdamW do not account for the spectral structure of weights and gradients, leaving them vulnerable to two empirical issues in la
arxivMay 28
arXiv:2602.10820v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A central requirement for the acceptance of machine learning methods for human-centric tasks is that they should be fair, in the sense that they should work comparably well for individuals from different societal groups. A second, equally important
arxivMay 28
arXiv:2605.27733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training instabilities such as loss spikes are frequently the result of stochastic gradient noise. Because of rare expressions in language training data, and multiple layer composition, the noise impact is heavy-tailed and survives mini-batch averaging
arxivMay 28
arXiv:2605.28809v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) is important in building real-world learning systems. In CLIP-based CIL, the model performs classification by comparing similarity between visual and textual embeddings obtained from template prompts, e.g., ``a photo
arxivMay 27
arXiv:2601.12809v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spatial understanding remains a key challenge in vision-language models. Yet it is still unclear whether such understanding is truly acquired, and if so, through what mechanisms. We present a controllable 1D image-text testbed to probe how le
arxivMay 27
arXiv:2605.26459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Muon-style optimizers take a matrix-valued momentum or preconditioned update $B = U \operatorname{diag}(\sigma_1,\ldots,\sigma_r) V^\top$ and replace it with its canonical partial polar factor $\operatorname{Pol}(B) = U V^\top$. This maps every nonzero