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most citedFrustratingly Easy Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models

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cs.CV2026

Unlearning Under Imbalance: Benchmarking Fairness in Multimodal LLM Unlearning

Lorenzo Orsingher, Thomas De Min, Massimiliano Mancini +2

Machine unlearning has emerged as a tool for removing personal data from trained models to comply with recent AI regulations. To evaluate unlearning effectiveness in multimodal lar…

cs.CV2026

Personalizing MLLMs via Reinforced Multimodal Reference Game

Deepayan Das, Davide Talon, Yiming Wang +2

Personalizing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) aims to recognize users' unique concepts from visual data and provide personalized responses. Although prior work has shown t…

cs.CV2026

DataComp-VLM: Improved Open Datasets for Vision-Language Models

Matteo Farina, Vishaal Udandarao, Thao Nguyen +33

Building performant Vision-Language Models (VLMs) requires carefully curating large-scale training datasets, yet the community lacks systematic benchmarks for evaluating such curat…

cs.AI2026

Thinking Past the Answer: Evaluating Harmful Overthinking in Large Reasoning Models

Simone Caldarella, Davide Talon, Rahaf Aljundi +2

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) improve performance by generating explicit intermediate reasoning traces through increased test-time compute, yet the assumption that longer reasoning…

cs.CV2026

SEM: Sparse Embedding Modulation for Post-Hoc Debiasing of Vision-Language Models

Quentin Guimard, Federico Bartsch, Simone Caldarella +3

Models that bridge vision and language, such as CLIP, are key components of multimodal AI, yet their large-scale, uncurated training data introduce severe social and spurious biase…

cs.CV2026

ProactiveBench: Benchmarking Proactiveness in Multimodal Large Language Models

Thomas De Min, Subhankar Roy, Stéphane Lathuilière +2

Effective collaboration begins with knowing when to ask for help. For example, when trying to identify an occluded object, a human would ask someone to remove the obstruction. Can…

cs.CV2026

Large Multimodal Models as General In-Context Classifiers

Marco Garosi, Matteo Farina, Alessandro Conti +2

Which multimodal model should we use for classification? Previous studies suggest that the answer lies in CLIP-like contrastive Vision-Language Models (VLMs), due to their remarkab…

cs.LG2026

Linear Model Merging Unlocks Simple and Scalable Multimodal Data Mixture Optimization

Davide Berasi, Matteo Farina, Massimiliano Mancini +1

Selecting the best data mixture is critical for successful Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) of Multimodal Large Language Models. However, determining the optimal mixture weights across…

cs.CV2025

Classifier-to-Bias: Toward Unsupervised Automatic Bias Detection for Visual Classifiers

Quentin Guimard, Moreno D'Incà, Massimiliano Mancini +1

A person downloading a pre-trained model from the web should be aware of its biases. Existing approaches for bias identification rely on datasets containing labels for the task of…

cs.CV2025

Compositional Caching for Training-free Open-vocabulary Attribute Detection

Marco Garosi, Alessandro Conti, Gaowen Liu +2

Attribute detection is crucial for many computer vision tasks, as it enables systems to describe properties such as color, texture, and material. Current approaches often rely on l…

cs.CV2025

Not Only Text: Exploring Compositionality of Visual Representations in Vision-Language Models

Davide Berasi, Matteo Farina, Massimiliano Mancini +2

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) learn a shared feature space for text and images, enabling the comparison of inputs of different modalities. While prior works demonstrated that VLMs…

cs.CV2025

Rethinking Few-Shot Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Two Stages

Matteo Farina, Massimiliano Mancini, Giovanni Iacca +1

An old-school recipe for training a classifier is to (i) learn a good feature extractor and (ii) optimize a linear layer atop. When only a handful of samples are available per cate…

cs.CV2025

On Large Multimodal Models as Open-World Image Classifiers

Alessandro Conti, Massimiliano Mancini, Enrico Fini +3

Traditional image classification requires a predefined list of semantic categories. In contrast, Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) can sidestep this requirement by classifying images…

cs.LG2025

Group-robust Machine Unlearning

Thomas De Min, Subhankar Roy, Stéphane Lathuilière +2

Machine unlearning is an emerging paradigm to remove the influence of specific training data (i.e., the forget set) from a model while preserving its knowledge of the rest of the d…

cs.CV2024

One VLM to Keep it Learning: Generation and Balancing for Data-free Continual Visual Question Answering

Deepayan Das, Davide Talon, Massimiliano Mancini +2

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown significant promise in Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks by leveraging web-scale multimodal datasets. However, these models often strug…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

The Phantom Menace: Unmasking Privacy Leakages in Vision-Language Models

Simone Caldarella, Massimiliano Mancini, Elisa Ricci +1

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) combine visual and textual understanding, rendering them well-suited for diverse tasks like generating image captions and answering visual questions a…

cs.CV2024

Conditioned Prompt-Optimization for Continual Deepfake Detection

Francesco Laiti, Benedetta Liberatori, Thomas De Min +1

The rapid advancement of generative models has significantly enhanced the realism and customization of digital content creation. The increasing power of these tools, coupled with t…

cs.CV2024

Unlearning Personal Data from a Single Image

Thomas De Min, Massimiliano Mancini, Stéphane Lathuilière +2

Machine unlearning aims to erase data from a model as if the latter never saw them during training. While existing approaches unlearn information from complete or partial access to…

cs.AI2024

Automatic benchmarking of large multimodal models via iterative experiment programming

Alessandro Conti, Enrico Fini, Paolo Rota +3

Assessing the capabilities of large multimodal models (LMMs) often requires the creation of ad-hoc evaluations. Currently, building new benchmarks requires tremendous amounts of ma…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Frustratingly Easy Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models

Matteo Farina, Gianni Franchi, Giovanni Iacca +2

Vision-Language Models seamlessly discriminate among arbitrary semantic categories, yet they still suffer from poor generalization when presented with challenging examples. For thi…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Vocabulary-free Image Classification and Semantic Segmentation

Alessandro Conti, Enrico Fini, Massimiliano Mancini +3

Large vision-language models revolutionized image classification and semantic segmentation paradigms. However, they typically assume a pre-defined set of categories, or vocabulary,…

cs.CV2024

MULTIFLOW: Shifting Towards Task-Agnostic Vision-Language Pruning

Matteo Farina, Massimiliano Mancini, Elia Cunegatti +3

While excellent in transfer learning, Vision-Language models (VLMs) come with high computational costs due to their large number of parameters. To address this issue, removing para…

cs.CV2023

Incremental Object-Based Novelty Detection with Feedback Loop

Simone Caldarella, Elisa Ricci, Rahaf Aljundi

Object-based Novelty Detection (ND) aims to identify unknown objects that do not belong to classes seen during training by an object detection model. The task is particularly cruci…

cs.CV2023

The Robust Semantic Segmentation UNCV2023 Challenge Results

Xuanlong Yu, Yi Zuo, Zitao Wang +34

This paper outlines the winning solutions employed in addressing the MUAD uncertainty quantification challenge held at ICCV 2023. The challenge was centered around semantic segment…