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cs.CV2026

Underrepresented in Foundation Model Pretraining Data? A One-Shot Probe

Chris Vorster, Mayug Maniparambil, Noel E. O'Connor +2

Large-scale Vision-Language Foundation Models (VLFMs), such as CLIP, now underpin a wide range of computer vision research and applications. VLFMs are often adapted to various doma…

cs.CV2026

Hold-One-Shot-Out (HOSO) for Validation-Free Few-Shot CLIP Adapters

Chris Vorster, Mayug Maniparambil, Noel E. O'Connor +2

In many CLIP adaptation methods, a blending ratio hyperparameter controls the trade-off between general pretrained CLIP knowledge and the limited, dataset-specific supervision from…

cs.CV2025

Understanding Space Is Rocket Science -- Only Top Reasoning Models Can Solve Spatial Understanding Tasks

Nils Hoehing, Mayug Maniparambil, Ellen Rushe +2

We propose RocketScience, an open-source contrastive VLM benchmark that tests for spatial relation understanding. It is comprised of entirely new real-world image-text pairs coveri…

cs.CV2024

Pinpoint Counterfactuals: Reducing social bias in foundation models via localized counterfactual generation

Kirill Sirotkin, Marcos Escudero-Viñolo, Pablo Carballeira +3

Foundation models trained on web-scraped datasets propagate societal biases to downstream tasks. While counterfactual generation enables bias analysis, existing methods introduce a…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Harnessing Frozen Unimodal Encoders for Flexible Multimodal Alignment

Mayug Maniparambil, Raiymbek Akshulakov, Yasser Abdelaziz Dahou Djilali +3

Recent contrastive multimodal vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated robust open-world semantic understanding, becoming the standard image backbones for vision-language…

cs.CV2024

Do Vision and Language Encoders Represent the World Similarly?

Mayug Maniparambil, Raiymbek Akshulakov, Yasser Abdelaziz Dahou Djilali +4

Aligned text-image encoders such as CLIP have become the de facto model for vision-language tasks. Furthermore, modality-specific encoders achieve impressive performances in their…