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Your Model Already Knows Don't Teach It, Learn to Ask It: Soft Prompting for Few-Shot Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare, Siyi Li, Hewei Wang +5
We address few-shot object detection with vision-language models (VLMs) in out-of-domain settings such as aerial, industrial, and medical imagery, using only ten annotated images f…
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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…
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Ask Twice, Look Twice: Prompt Echoing Resolves the Question-First Paradox in Vision-Language Models
Rakshanda Hassan Abhinandan, John Galeotti, Deva Ramanan +1
Where should the question go in a vision-language model (VLM) prompt: before the image or after it? Intuition says before: knowing what is asked should tell the model where to look…