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most citedAn Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling

37 citations · 122 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CV2026

Attributes Should Come from Images, Not Class Names: Distribution-Conditioned Attribute Selection for Vision-Language Models

Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare, Jia Shi, Zhiqiu Lin +3

A popular route to interpretable zero-shot classification asks a large language model (LLM) to describe each class name and prompts CLIP with the resulting descriptors. We show tha…

cs.LG2026

Multimodal Unlearning Across Vision, Language, Video, and Audio: Survey of Methods, Datasets, and Benchmarks

Nobin Sarwar, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Zheyuan Liu +1

With the growing adoption of VLMs, DMs, LLMs, and AFMs, these multimodal foundation models can inadvertently encode sensitive, copyrighted, biased, or unsafe cross-modal associatio…

cs.CV2026

Building a Precise Video Language with Human-AI Oversight

Zhiqiu Lin, Chancharik Mitra, Siyuan Cen +13

Video-language models (VLMs) learn to reason about the dynamic visual world through natural language. We introduce a suite of open datasets, benchmarks, and recipes for scalable ov…

cs.CV2025

Activation Reward Models for Few-Shot Model Alignment

Tianning Chai, Chancharik Mitra, Brandon Huang +8

Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) to human preferences is a central challenge in improving the quality of the models' generative outputs for…

cs.CV2025

InstructPart: Task-Oriented Part Segmentation with Instruction Reasoning

Zifu Wan, Yaqi Xie, Ce Zhang +5

Large multimodal foundation models, particularly in the domains of language and vision, have significantly advanced various tasks, including robotics, autonomous driving, informati…

cs.CV2025

Towards Understanding Camera Motions in Any Video

Zhiqiu Lin, Siyuan Cen, Daniel Jiang +12

We introduce CameraBench, a large-scale dataset and benchmark designed to assess and improve camera motion understanding. CameraBench consists of ~3,000 diverse internet videos, an…

cs.CV2024

Enhancing Few-Shot Vision-Language Classification with Large Multimodal Model Features

Chancharik Mitra, Brandon Huang, Tianning Chai +7

Generative Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) like LLaVA and Qwen-VL excel at a wide variety of vision-language (VL) tasks. Despite strong performance, LMMs' generative outputs are not…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

NaturalBench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Natural Adversarial Samples

Baiqi Li, Zhiqiu Lin, Wenxuan Peng +7

Vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in recent visual-question-answering (VQA) benchmarks that evaluate complex visio-linguistic reasoning. However, are the…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

LCA-on-the-Line: Benchmarking Out-of-Distribution Generalization with Class Taxonomies

Jia Shi, Gautam Gare, Jinjin Tian +6

We tackle the challenge of predicting models' Out-of-Distribution (OOD) performance using in-distribution (ID) measurements without requiring OOD data. Existing evaluations with "E…

cs.CV2024

GenAI-Bench: Evaluating and Improving Compositional Text-to-Visual Generation

Baiqi Li, Zhiqiu Lin, Deepak Pathak +8

While text-to-visual models now produce photo-realistic images and videos, they struggle with compositional text prompts involving attributes, relationships, and higher-order reaso…

cs.LG2024★ 37 cited

An Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling

Florian Bordes, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Anurag Ajay +38

Following the recent popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), several attempts have been made to extend them to the visual domain. From having a visual assistant that could guid…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Evaluating Text-to-Visual Generation with Image-to-Text Generation

Zhiqiu Lin, Deepak Pathak, Baiqi Li +5

Despite significant progress in generative AI, comprehensive evaluation remains challenging because of the lack of effective metrics and standardized benchmarks. For instance, the…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

The Neglected Tails in Vision-Language Models

Shubham Parashar, Zhiqiu Lin, Tian Liu +5

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel in zero-shot recognition but their performance varies greatly across different visual concepts. For example, although CLIP achieves impressive a…

cs.CV2023

Prompting Scientific Names for Zero-Shot Species Recognition

Shubham Parashar, Zhiqiu Lin, Yanan Li +1

Trained on web-scale image-text pairs, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP can recognize images of common objects in a zero-shot fashion. However, it is underexplored how to…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Language Models as Black-Box Optimizers for Vision-Language Models

Shihong Liu, Zhiqiu Lin, Samuel Yu +4

Vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained on web-scale datasets have demonstrated remarkable capabilities on downstream tasks when fine-tuned with minimal data. However, many VLMs…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

Revisiting the Role of Language Priors in Vision-Language Models

Zhiqiu Lin, Xinyue Chen, Deepak Pathak +2

Vision-language models (VLMs) are impactful in part because they can be applied to a variety of visual understanding tasks in a zero-shot fashion, without any fine-tuning. We study…

cs.CV2023★ 8 cited

Multimodality Helps Unimodality: Cross-Modal Few-Shot Learning with Multimodal Models

Zhiqiu Lin, Samuel Yu, Zhiyi Kuang +2

The ability to quickly learn a new task with minimal instruction - known as few-shot learning - is a central aspect of intelligent agents. Classical few-shot benchmarks make use of…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Continual Learning with Evolving Class Ontologies

Zhiqiu Lin, Deepak Pathak, Yu-Xiong Wang +2

Lifelong learners must recognize concept vocabularies that evolve over time. A common yet underexplored scenario is learning with class labels that continually refine/expand old cl…

cs.CV2022★ 15 cited

The CLEAR Benchmark: Continual LEArning on Real-World Imagery

Zhiqiu Lin, Jia Shi, Deepak Pathak +1

Continual learning (CL) is widely regarded as crucial challenge for lifelong AI. However, existing CL benchmarks, e.g. Permuted-MNIST and Split-CIFAR, make use of artificial tempor…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Streaming Self-Training via Domain-Agnostic Unlabeled Images

Zhiqiu Lin, Deva Ramanan, Aayush Bansal

We present streaming self-training (SST) that aims to democratize the process of learning visual recognition models such that a non-expert user can define a new task depending on t…

cs.CV2020★ 27 cited

Visual Chirality

Zhiqiu Lin, Jin Sun, Abe Davis +1

How can we tell whether an image has been mirrored? While we understand the geometry of mirror reflections very well, less has been said about how it affects distributions of image…

cs.LG2019★ 13 cited

QPyTorch: A Low-Precision Arithmetic Simulation Framework

Tianyi Zhang, Zhiqiu Lin, Guandao Yang +1

Low-precision training reduces computational cost and produces efficient models. Recent research in developing new low-precision training algorithms often relies on simulation to e…

cs.LG2018★ 4 cited

Intermediate Level Adversarial Attack for Enhanced Transferability

Qian Huang, Zeqi Gu, Isay Katsman +5

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, malicious inputs crafted to fool trained models. Adversarial examples often exhibit black-box transfer, meaning that adversa…