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Awesome-Prompt-Adapter-Learning-for-VLMs

A curated list of prompt/adapter learning methods for vision-language models (e.g., CLIP).

Table of Contents

• Papers
  • Surveys
  • Prompt Learning
  • Test-time Prompt Learning
  • Adapter Learning
  • Video Understanding
  • Continual Learning

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• Note that papers without open-source code are not recommended.

Keywords

Use text-based prompts/adapters.

Use image-based prompts/adapters.

Use text- and image-based prompts/adapters.

Surveys

• A Systematic Survey of Prompt Engineering on Vision-Language Foundation Models. [Paper]
• Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Pre-Trained Vision Models: A Survey. [Paper]

General Prompt Learning

Experimental Comparison

Base-to-Novel Generalization. (ViT-B/16 CLIP)

Table 1. Average results on 11 datasets. (Only works with open-source code will be listed.)

Paper List

2022

• CoOp Learning to Prompt for Vision-Language Models. IJCV 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]
• CoCoOp Conditional Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models. CVPR 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]
• ProDA Prompt Distribution Learning. CVPR 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]
• VPT Visual Prompt Tuning. ECCV 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]
• VP Exploring Visual Prompts for Adapting Large-Scale Models. Arxiv 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]

2023

• MaPLe MaPLe: Multi-modal Prompt Learning. CVPR 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• KgCoOp Visual-Language Prompt Tuningx with Knowledge-guided Context Optimization. CVPR 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• LASP LASP: Text-to-Text Optimization for Language-Aware Soft Prompting of Vision & Language Models. CVPR 2023.
  [Paper]
• DAM-VP Diversity-Aware Meta Visual Prompting. CVPR 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• TaskRes Task Residual for Tuning Vision-Language Models. CVPR 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• RPO Read-only Prompt Optimization for Vision-Language Few-shot Learning. ICCV 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• KAPT Knowledge-Aware Prompt Tuning for Generalizable Vision-Language Models. ICCV 2023.
  [Paper] <!-- Text-based ViT-B/32 -->
• CuPL What does a platypus look like? Generating customized prompts for zero-shot image classification. ICCV 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• ProGrad Prompt-aligned Gradient for Prompt Tuning. ICCV 2023.
  [Paper][Code] <!-- ViT-B/32 -->
• PromptSRC Self-regulating Prompts: Foundational Model Adaptation without Forgetting. ICCV 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• DeFo Learning to Decompose Visual Features with Latent Textual Prompts. ICLR 2023.
  [Paper]
• PLOT PLOT: Prompt Learning with Optimal Transport for Vision-Language Models. ICLR 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• POMP Prompt Pre-Training with Twenty-Thousand Classes for Open-Vocabulary Visual Recognition. NeurIPS 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]

2024

• MetaPrompt Learning Domain Invariant Prompt for Vision-Language Models. TIP 2024.
  [Paper]
• ProVP Progressive Visual Prompt Learning with Contrastive Feature Re-formation. IJCV 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• CoPL CoPL: Contextual Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Understanding. AAAI 2024.
  [Paper]
• SA2VP SA2VP: Spatially Aligned-and-Adapted Visual Prompt. AAAI 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• HPT Learning Hierarchical Prompt with Structured Linguistic Knowledge for Vision-Language Models. AAAI 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• LaViP LaViP: Language-Grounded Visual Prompts. AAAI 2024.
  [Paper] <!-- 没imagenet结果 -->
• CoPrompt Consistency-guided Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models. ICLR 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• ProText Learning to Prompt with Text Only Supervision for Vision-Language Models. arxiv 24.
  [Paper] [Code]
• PromptKD PromptKD: Unsupervised Prompt Distillation for Vision Language Models. CVPR 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• DePT DePT: Decoupled Prompt Tuning. CVPR 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• ArGue ArGue: Attribute-Guided Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models. CVPR 2024.
  [Paper]
• TCP TCP: Textual-based Class-aware Prompt tuning for Visual-Language Model. CVPR 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• MMA MMA: Multi-Modal Adapter for Vision-Language Models. CVPR 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• KDPL Improving Zero-shot Generalization of Learned Prompts via Unsupervised Knowledge Distillation. ECCV 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• CoCoLe Conceptual Codebook Learning for Vision-Language Models. ECCV 2024.
  [Paper]
• CasPL Cascade Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Model Adaptation ECCV 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• GalLoP GalLoP: Learning Global and Local Prompts for Vision-Language Models. ECCV 2024.
  [Paper]
• AWT AWT: Transferring Vision-Language Models via Augmentation, Weighting, and Transportation. NeurIPS 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• ATPrompt ATPrompt: Textual Prompt Learning with Embedded Attributes. arxiv 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]

2025

• TextRefiner TextRefiner: Internal Visual Feature as Efficient Refiner for Vision-Language Models Prompt Tuning. AAAI 2025.
  [Paper] [Code]

Another form of Prompt

Paper List

• CPT CPT: Colorful Prompt Tuning for pre-trained vision-language models Arxiv 2021.
  [Paper] [Code]
• DetPro Learning to Prompt for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Vision-Language Model. CVPR 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]
• PromptDet PromptDet: Towards Open-vocabulary Detection using Uncurated Images. ECCV 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]
• Visual Prompting via Image Inpainting. NeurIPS 2022.
  [Paper]
• OVSeg Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation with Mask-adapted CLIP. CVPR 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• LoGoPrompt LoGoPrompt: Synthetic Text Images Can Be Good Visual Prompts for Vision-Language Models. ICCV 2023.
  [Paper]
• RedCircle What does CLIP know about a red circle? Visual prompt engineering for VLMs. ICCV 2023.
  [Paper]]
• FGVP Fine-Grained Visual Prompting. NeurIPS 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• SoM Set-of-mark prompting unleashes extraordinary visual grounding in gpt-4v. Arxiv 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• Alpha-CLIP Alpha-CLIP: A CLIP Model Focusing on Wherever You Want. CVPR 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• ViP-LLaVA Making Large Multimodal Models Understand Arbitrary Visual Prompts. CVPR 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• SSC Segment, Select, Correct: A Framework for Weakly-Supervised Referring Segmentation. ECCV 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]

General Test-time Prompt Learning

Experimental Comparison

Table 2. Test-time prompt tuning methods on OOD data.

Paper List

• TPT Test-Time Prompt Tuning for Zero-Shot Generalization in Vision-Language Models. NeurIPS 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]
• SwapPrompt SwapPrompt: Test-Time Prompt Adaptation for Vision-Language Models. NeurIPS 2023.
  [Paper]
• PrompAlign Align Your Prompts: Test-Time Prompting with Distribution Alignment for Zero-Shot Generalization. NeurIPS 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• TPS Just Shift It: Test-Time Prototype Shifting for Zero-Shot Generalization with Vision-Language Models. Arxiv 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• RLCF Test-time Adaptation with CLIP reward for zero-shot generalization in Vision-Language Models. ICLR 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• InTTA Invariant Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Model Generalization. Arxiv 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]

General Adapter Learning

Paper List

• CLIP-Adapter CLIP-Adapter: Better Vision-Language Models with Feature Adapters. Arxiv 2021.
  [Paper] [Code]
• Tip-Adapter Tip-Adapter: Training-free Adaption of CLIP for Few-shot Classification. ECCV 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]
• APE Not All Features Matter: Enhancing Few-shot CLIP with Adaptive Prior Refinement. ICCV 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• CaFoPrompt, Generate, then Cache: Cascade of Foundation Models makes Strong Few-shot Learners. CVPR 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]
• Meta-Adapter Meta-Adapter: An Online Few-shot Learner for Vision-Language Model. NeurIPS 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]

Video Understanding

Prompt Learning

• Efficient-Prompt Prompting visual-language models for efficient video understanding. ECCV 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]
• InTTA Expanding Language-Image Pretrained Models for General Video Recognition. ECCV 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]
• RePro Compositional Prompt Tuning with Motion Cues for Open-vocabulary Video Relation Detection. ICLR 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]

Continual Learning

Prompt Learning

• L2P Learning to Prompt for Continual Learning. CVPR 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]
• DualPrompt DualPrompt: Complementary Prompting for Rehearsal-free Continual Learning. ECCV 2022.
  [Paper] [Code]
• EvoPrompt Evolving Parameterized Prompt Memory for Continual Learning. AAAI 2024.
  [Paper]
• CPrompt Consistent Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning. CVPR 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• DIKI Mind the Interference: Retaining Pre-trained Knowledge in Parameter Efficient Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models. ECCV 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]

Adapter Learning

• MoE-Adapters4CL Boosting Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Mixture-of-Experts Adapters. CVPR 2024.
  [Paper] [Code]
• SSIAT Semantically-Shifted Incremental Adapter-Tuning is A Continual ViTransformer. CVPR 2024.
  [Paper]

Others

• LoCoOp LoCoOp: Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection via Prompt Learning. NeurIPS 2023.
  [Paper] [Code]