3 papers
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.CV2025
What Do You See in Common? Learning Hierarchical Prototypes over Tree-of-Life to Discover Evolutionary Traits
Harish Babu Manogaran, M. Maruf, Arka Daw +12
A grand challenge in biology is to discover evolutionary traits - features of organisms common to a group of species with a shared ancestor in the tree of life (also referred to as…
cs.CV2025
Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding & Identification of Traits from Images
Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, M. Maruf, Arka Daw +16
We introduce Fish-Visual Trait Analysis (Fish-Vista), the first organismal image dataset designed for the analysis of visual traits of aquatic species directly from images using pr…