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When to Trust Adaptation: Contextual Fusion for Transferable Vision-Language Prompting
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摘要
When a vision-language model encounters a new class or domain, how much should it trust its learned prompts? Because source adaptation can correct pretrained errors on some target images while disturbing valid predictions on others, we introduce Contextual Adaptive Fusion (CAF), which retains four prediction branches by pairing frozen and prompted visual and textual representations. To arbitrate when branches disagree on an image, CAF combines each branch's predictive confidence with how frequently the branches favor its proposed class across the unlabeled target collection, placing greater trust in predictions that are locally confident yet less dominated by collection-wide frequency bias. The fusion coefficients are learned once on source data and remain fixed at inference. Trained on ImageNet, CAF achieves 69.96% average accuracy across ten cross-dataset benchmarks (1.92 percentage points above ManiPT) and remains highly competitive across four ImageNet variants, setting a new best of 52.21% on ImageNet-S. In base-to-novel transfer across eleven datasets, CAF further reaches 79.77% novel-class accuracy and an 82.81% harmonic mean. Code is available at https://github.com/zhenyuanchenai/CAF.
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When to Trust Adaptation: Contextual Fusion for Transferable Vision-Language Prompting
When a vision-language model encounters a new class or domain, how much should it trust its learned prompts? Because source adaptation can correct pretrained errors on some target images while disturbing valid predictions on others, we introduce Contextual Adaptive Fusion (CAF), which retains four prediction branches by pairing frozen and prompted visual and textual representations. To arbitrate when branches disagree on an image, CAF combines each branch's predictive confidence with how frequently the branches favor its proposed class across the unlabeled target collection, placing greater trust in predictions that are locally confident yet less dominated by collection-wide frequency bias. The fusion coefficients are learned once on source data and remain fixed at inference. Trained on ImageNet, CAF achieves 69.96% average accuracy across ten cross-dataset benchmarks (1.92 percentage points above ManiPT) and remains highly competitive across four ImageNet variants, setting a new best of 52.21% on ImageNet-S. In base-to-novel transfer across eleven datasets, CAF further reaches 79.77% novel-class accuracy and an 82.81% harmonic mean. Code is available at https://github.com/zhenyuanchenai/CAF.
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When to Trust Adaptation: Contextual Fusion for Transferable Vision-Language Prompting
When a vision-language model encounters a new class or domain, how much should it trust its learned prompts? Because source adaptation can correct pretrained errors on some target images while disturbing valid predictions on others, we introduce Contextual Adaptive Fusion (CAF), which retains four prediction branches by pairing frozen and prompted visual and textual representations. To arbitrate when branches disagree on an image, CAF combines each branch's predictive confidence with how frequently the branches favor its proposed class across the unlabeled target collection, placing greater trust in predictions that are locally confident yet less dominated by collection-wide frequency bias. The fusion coefficients are learned once on source data and remain fixed at inference. Trained on ImageNet, CAF achieves 69.96% average accuracy across ten cross-dataset benchmarks (1.92 percentage points above ManiPT) and remains highly competitive across four ImageNet variants, setting a new best of 52.21% on ImageNet-S. In base-to-novel transfer across eleven datasets, CAF further reaches 79.77% novel-class accuracy and an 82.81% harmonic mean. Code is available at https://github.com/zhenyuanchenai/CAF.
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