Hao Xu

Yu Wang, Zexue He, Zhankui He et al.

Understanding and accurately explaining compatibility relationships between fashion items is a challenging problem in the burgeoning domain of AI-driven outfit recommendations. Present models, while making strides in this area, still occasionally fall short, offering explanations that can be elementary and repetitive. This work aims to address these shortcomings by introducing the Pair Fashion Explanation (PFE) dataset, a unique resource that has been curated to illuminate these compatibility relationships. Furthermore, we propose an innovative two-stage pipeline model that leverages this dataset. This fine-tuning allows the model to generate explanations that convey the compatibility relationships between items. Our experiments showcase the model's potential in crafting descriptions that are knowledgeable, aligned with ground-truth matching correlations, and that produce understandable and informative descriptions, as assessed by both automatic metrics and human evaluation. Our code and data are released at https://github.com/wangyu-ustc/PairFashionExplanation

Xi Xiao, Yunbei Zhang, Lin Zhao et al.

In computer vision, Visual Prompting (VP) and Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) have recently emerged as lightweight and effective alternatives to full fine-tuning for adapting large-scale vision models within the ``pretrain-then-finetune'' paradigm. However, despite rapid progress, their conceptual boundaries remain blurred, as VP and VPT are frequently used interchangeably in current research, reflecting a lack of systematic distinction between these techniques and their respective applications. In this survey, we revisit the designs of VP and VPT from first principles, and conceptualize them within a unified framework termed Prompt-based Adaptation (PA). We provide a taxonomy that categorizes existing methods into learnable, generative, and non-learnable prompts, and further organizes them by injection granularity -- pixel-level and token-level. Beyond the core methodologies, we examine PA's integrations across diverse domains, including medical imaging, 3D point clouds, and vision-language tasks, as well as its role in test-time adaptation and trustworthy AI. We also summarize current benchmarks and identify key challenges and future directions. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first comprehensive survey dedicated to PA's methodologies and applications in light of their distinct characteristics. Our survey aims to provide a clear roadmap for researchers and practitioners in all area to understand and explore the evolving landscape of PA-related research.