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Dewei Feng
dblp:405/4450
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Vision and language · 33% Representation and self-supervised learning · 33% Transfer learning and domain adaptation · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
fine-tuning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Post-pre-training for Modality Alignment in Vision-Language Foundation Models · CVPR 2025 |
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation matching › feature alignment
modality alignment |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Post-pre-training for Modality Alignment in Vision-Language Foundation Models · CVPR 2025 |
Computer vision › Vision and language
vision-language pretraining |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Post-pre-training for Modality Alignment in Vision-Language Foundation Models · CVPR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
random feature alignment · 0.9knowledge distillation · 0.9contrastive learning · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Post-pre-training for Modality Alignment in Vision-Language Foundation ModelsabstractContrastive language image pre-training (CLIP) is an essential component of building modern vision-language foundation models. While CLIP demonstrates remarkable zero-shot performance on downstream tasks, the multi-modal feature spaces still suffer from a modality gap, which is a gap between image and text feature clusters and limits downstream task performance. Although existing works attempt to address the modality gap by modifying pre-training or fine-tuning, they struggle with heavy training costs with large datasets or degradations of zero-shot performance. This paper presents CLIP-Refine, a post-pre-training method for CLIP models at a phase between pre-training and fine-tuning. CLIP-Refine aims to align the feature space with 1 epoch training on small image-text datasets without zero-shot performance degradations. To this end, we introduce two techniques: random feature alignment (RaFA) and hybrid contrastive-distillation (HyCD). RaFA aligns the image and text features to follow a shared prior distribution by minimizing the distance to random reference vectors sampled from the prior. HyCD updates the model with hybrid soft labels generated by combining ground-truth image-text pair labels and outputs from the pre-trained CLIP model. This contributes to achieving both maintaining the past knowledge and learning new knowledge to align features. Our extensive experiments with multiple classification and retrieval tasks show that CLIP-Refine succeeds in mitigating the modality gap and improving the zero-shot performance1. Shin'ya Yamaguchi, Dewei Feng, Sekitoshi Kanai, Kazuki Adachi, Daiki Chijiwa |
CVPR | 2 |