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most citedLaFTer: Label-Free Tuning of Zero-shot Classifier using Language and Unlabeled Image Collections

7 citations · 12 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.CV2026

Architectural Sampling: Test-Time Scaling via Computational Diversity in Frozen Vision-Language Models

Akshit Singh, Shyam Marjit, Wei Lin +2

Test-time scaling often seeks better answers by sampling multiple responses from a frozen model, yet conventional temperature sampling generates every candidate along the same fixe…

cs.CV2025

Probing the effectiveness of World Models for Spatial Reasoning through Test-time Scaling

Saurav Jha, M. Jehanzeb Mirza, Wei Lin +2

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) remain limited in spatial reasoning tasks that require multi-view understanding and embodied perspective shifts. Recent approaches such as MindJourney…

cs.CV2025

PRISMM-Bench: A Benchmark of Peer-Review Grounded Multimodal Inconsistencies

Lukas Selch, Yufang Hou, M. Jehanzeb Mirza +4

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) are increasingly applied to scientific research, yet it remains unclear whether they can reliably understand and reason over the multimodal complexit…

cs.CV2025

TTRV: Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Vision Language Models

Akshit Singh, Shyam Marjit, Wei Lin +7

Existing methods for extracting reward signals in Reinforcement Learning typically rely on labeled data and dedicated training splits, a setup that contrasts with how humans learn…

cs.CV2025

VisualOverload: Probing Visual Understanding of VLMs in Really Dense Scenes

Paul Gavrikov, Wei Lin, M. Jehanzeb Mirza +6

Is basic visual understanding really solved in state-of-the-art VLMs? We present VisualOverload, a slightly different visual question answering (VQA) benchmark comprising 2,720 que…

cs.CV2025

Instructify: Demystifying Metadata to Visual Instruction Tuning Data Conversion

Jacob Hansen, Wei Lin, Junmo Kang +6

Visual Instruction Tuning (VisIT) data, commonly available as human-assistant conversations with images interleaved in the human turns, are currently the most widespread vehicle fo…

cs.LG2025

Overflow Prevention Enhances Long-Context Recurrent LLMs

Assaf Ben-Kish, Itamar Zimerman, M. Jehanzeb Mirza +4

A recent trend in LLMs is developing recurrent sub-quadratic models that improve long-context processing efficiency. We investigate leading large long-context models, focusing on h…

cs.CV2025

Exploring Modality Guidance to Enhance VFM-based Feature Fusion for UDA in 3D Semantic Segmentation

Johannes Spoecklberger, Wei Lin, Pedro Hermosilla +3

Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) have become a de facto choice for many downstream vision tasks, like image classification, image segmentation, and object localization. However, the…

cs.LG2025

Can Diffusion Models Disentangle? A Theoretical Perspective

Liming Wang, Muhammad Jehanzeb Mirza, Yishu Gong +6

This paper presents a novel theoretical framework for understanding how diffusion models can learn disentangled representations. Within this framework, we establish identifiability…

cs.CV2024

Teaching VLMs to Localize Specific Objects from In-context Examples

Sivan Doveh, Nimrod Shabtay, Wei Lin +9

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across diverse visual tasks, including image recognition, video understanding, and Visual Question Answering (VQA)…

cs.CV2024

LiveXiv -- A Multi-Modal Live Benchmark Based on Arxiv Papers Content

Nimrod Shabtay, Felipe Maia Polo, Sivan Doveh +8

The large-scale training of multi-modal models on data scraped from the web has shown outstanding utility in infusing these models with the required world knowledge to perform effe…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

GLOV: Guided Large Language Models as Implicit Optimizers for Vision Language Models

M. Jehanzeb Mirza, Mengjie Zhao, Zhuoyuan Mao +12

In this work, we propose GLOV, which enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to act as implicit optimizers for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to enhance downstream vision tasks. GLOV p…

cs.CV2024

Comparison Visual Instruction Tuning

Wei Lin, Muhammad Jehanzeb Mirza, Sivan Doveh +4

Comparing two images in terms of Commonalities and Differences (CaD) is a fundamental human capability that forms the basis of advanced visual reasoning and interpretation. It is e…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

ConMe: Rethinking Evaluation of Compositional Reasoning for Modern VLMs

Irene Huang, Wei Lin, M. Jehanzeb Mirza +11

Compositional Reasoning (CR) entails grasping the significance of attributes, relations, and word order. Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs), comprising a visual encoder and a Lar…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Into the Fog: Evaluating Robustness of Multiple Object Tracking

Nadezda Kirillova, M. Jehanzeb Mirza, Horst Bischof +1

State-of-the-art Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) approaches have shown remarkable performance when trained and evaluated on current benchmarks. However, these benchmarks primarily c…

cs.CV2024

TTT-KD: Test-Time Training for 3D Semantic Segmentation through Knowledge Distillation from Foundation Models

Lisa Weijler, Muhammad Jehanzeb Mirza, Leon Sick +2

Test-Time Training (TTT) proposes to adapt a pre-trained network to changing data distributions on-the-fly. In this work, we propose the first TTT method for 3D semantic segmentati…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Towards Multimodal In-Context Learning for Vision & Language Models

Sivan Doveh, Shaked Perek, M. Jehanzeb Mirza +5

State-of-the-art Vision-Language Models (VLMs) ground the vision and the language modality primarily via projecting the vision tokens from the encoder to language-like tokens, whic…

cs.CV2024

Meta-Prompting for Automating Zero-shot Visual Recognition with LLMs

M. Jehanzeb Mirza, Leonid Karlinsky, Wei Lin +5

Prompt ensembling of Large Language Model (LLM) generated category-specific prompts has emerged as an effective method to enhance zero-shot recognition ability of Vision-Language M…

cs.CV2024

Can We Talk Models Into Seeing the World Differently?

Paul Gavrikov, Jovita Lukasik, Steffen Jung +4

Unlike traditional vision-only models, vision language models (VLMs) offer an intuitive way to access visual content through language prompting by combining a large language model…

cs.CV2023

TAP: Targeted Prompting for Task Adaptive Generation of Textual Training Instances for Visual Classification

M. Jehanzeb Mirza, Leonid Karlinsky, Wei Lin +3

Vision and Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have enabled visual recognition of a potentially unlimited set of categories described by text prompts. However, for the best visua…

cs.CV2023

Sit Back and Relax: Learning to Drive Incrementally in All Weather Conditions

Stefan Leitner, M. Jehanzeb Mirza, Wei Lin +5

In autonomous driving scenarios, current object detection models show strong performance when tested in clear weather. However, their performance deteriorates significantly when te…

cs.CV2023★ 7 cited

LaFTer: Label-Free Tuning of Zero-shot Classifier using Language and Unlabeled Image Collections

M. Jehanzeb Mirza, Leonid Karlinsky, Wei Lin +4

Recently, large-scale pre-trained Vision and Language (VL) models have set a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) in zero-shot visual classification enabling open-vocabulary recognition of…

cs.LG2022

Test-time adversarial detection and robustness for localizing humans using ultra wide band channel impulse responses

Abhiram Kolli, Muhammad Jehanzeb Mirza, Horst Possegger +1

Keyless entry systems in cars are adopting neural networks for localizing its operators. Using test-time adversarial defences equip such systems with the ability to defend against…

cs.CV2022

Video Test-Time Adaptation for Action Recognition

Wei Lin, Muhammad Jehanzeb Mirza, Mateusz Kozinski +3

Although action recognition systems can achieve top performance when evaluated on in-distribution test points, they are vulnerable to unanticipated distribution shifts in test data…