5 papers
The Geometry of Robustness: Optimizing Loss Landscape Curvature and Feature Manifold Alignment for Robust Finetuning of Vision-Language Models
Shivang Chopra, Shaunak Halbe, Chengyue Huang +2
Fine-tuning approaches for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) face a critical three-way trade-off between In-Distribution (ID) accuracy, Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization, and ad…
FRAMES-VQA: Benchmarking Fine-Tuning Robustness across Multi-Modal Shifts in Visual Question Answering
Chengyue Huang, Brisa Maneechotesuwan, Shivang Chopra +1
Visual question answering (VQA) systems face significant challenges when adapting to real-world data shifts, especially in multi-modal contexts. While robust fine-tuning strategies…
Directional Gradient Projection for Robust Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models
Chengyue Huang, Junjiao Tian, Brisa Maneechotesuwan +2
Robust fine-tuning aims to adapt large foundation models to downstream tasks while preserving their robustness to distribution shifts. Existing methods primarily focus on constrain…
MedMoE: Modality-Specialized Mixture of Experts for Medical Vision-Language Understanding
Shivang Chopra, Gabriela Sanchez-Rodriguez, Lingchao Mao +3
Different medical imaging modalities capture diagnostic information at varying spatial resolutions, from coarse global patterns to fine-grained localized structures. However, most…
Mimicking or Reasoning: Rethinking Multi-Modal In-Context Learning in Vision-Language Models
Chengyue Huang, Yuchen Zhu, Sichen Zhu +4
Vision-language models (VLMs) are widely assumed to exhibit in-context learning (ICL), a property similar to that of their language-only counterparts. While recent work suggests VL…