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most citedBioCLIP: A Vision Foundation Model for the Tree of Life

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cs.CV2025

Finer-Personalization Rank: Fine-Grained Retrieval Examines Identity Preservation for Personalized Generation

Connor Kilrain, David Carlyn, Julia Chae +3

The rise of personalized generative models raises a central question: how should we evaluate identity preservation? Given a reference image (e.g., one's pet), we expect the generat…

cs.CV2025

BeetleFlow: An Integrative Deep Learning Pipeline for Beetle Image Processing

Fangxun Liu, S M Rayeed, Samuel Stevens +21

In entomology and ecology research, biologists often need to collect a large number of insects, among which beetles are the most common species. A common practice for biologists to…

cs.CV2025

BioCAP: Exploiting Synthetic Captions Beyond Labels in Biological Foundation Models

Ziheng Zhang, Xinyue Ma, Arpita Chowdhury +9

This work investigates descriptive captions as an additional source of supervision for biological multimodal foundation models. Images and captions can be viewed as complementary s…

cs.LG2025

A Rigorous Behavior Assessment of CNNs Using a Data-Domain Sampling Regime

Shuning Jiang, Wei-Lun Chao, Daniel Haehn +2

We present a data-domain sampling regime for quantifying CNNs' graphic perception behaviors. This regime lets us evaluate CNNs' ratio estimation ability in bar charts from three pe…

cs.CV2025

AVA-Bench: Atomic Visual Ability Benchmark for Vision Foundation Models

Zheda Mai, Arpita Chowdhury, Zihe Wang +5

The rise of vision foundation models (VFMs) calls for systematic evaluation. A common approach pairs VFMs with large language models (LLMs) as general-purpose heads, followed by ev…

cs.CV2025

BioCLIP 2: Emergent Properties from Scaling Hierarchical Contrastive Learning

Jianyang Gu, Samuel Stevens, Elizabeth G Campolongo +13

Foundation models trained at scale exhibit remarkable emergent behaviors, learning new capabilities beyond their initial training objectives. We find such emergent behaviors in bio…

cs.LG2025

Building Machine Learning Challenges for Anomaly Detection in Science

Elizabeth G. Campolongo, Yuan-Tang Chou, Ekaterina Govorkova +148

Scientific discoveries are often made by finding a pattern or object that was not predicted by the known rules of science. Oftentimes, these anomalous events or objects that do not…

cs.LG2025

Federated Inverse Probability Treatment Weighting for Individual Treatment Effect Estimation

Changchang Yin, Hong-You Chen, Wei-Lun Chao +1

Individual treatment effect (ITE) estimation is to evaluate the causal effects of treatment strategies on some important outcomes, which is a crucial problem in healthcare. Most ex…

cs.LG2025

Revisiting semi-supervised learning in the era of foundation models

Ping Zhang, Zheda Mai, Quang-Huy Nguyen +1

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) leverages abundant unlabeled data alongside limited labeled data to enhance learning. As vision foundation models (VFMs) increasingly serve as the ba…

cs.CV2025

Interpretable and Testable Vision Features via Sparse Autoencoders

Samuel Stevens, Wei-Lun Chao, Tanya Berger-Wolf +1

To truly understand vision models, we must not only interpret their learned features but also validate these interpretations through controlled experiments. While earlier work offe…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Finer-CAM: Spotting the Difference Reveals Finer Details for Visual Explanation

Ziheng Zhang, Jianyang Gu, Arpita Chowdhury +5

Class activation map (CAM) has been widely used to highlight image regions that contribute to class predictions. Despite its simplicity and computational efficiency, CAM often stru…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

Prompt-CAM: Making Vision Transformers Interpretable for Fine-Grained Analysis

Arpita Chowdhury, Dipanjyoti Paul, Zheda Mai +10

We present a simple approach to make pre-trained Vision Transformers (ViTs) interpretable for fine-grained analysis, aiming to identify and localize the traits that distinguish vis…

cs.CV2025

Static Segmentation by Tracking: A Label-Efficient Approach for Fine-Grained Specimen Image Segmentation

Zhenyang Feng, Zihe Wang, Jianyang Gu +22

We study image segmentation in the biological domain, particularly trait segmentation from specimen images (e.g., butterfly wing stripes, beetle elytra). This fine-grained task is…