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The paper reports that prompts learned by CoOp do not generalise to unseen classes in the same dataset, suggesting overfitting to the training classes.
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What the paper says, word for word
“In our study we identify a critical problem of CoOp: the learned context is not generalizable to wider unseen classes within the same dataset, suggesting that CoOp overfits base classes observed during training.”
From Zhou et al. (2022), arXiv 2203.05557. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 15 Oct 2026.
CoOp:
Context Optimization, a method that turns the context words of a text prompt into learnable vectors so a pre-trained vision-language model can be adapted using a few labelled images.
base classes:
The categories seen and labelled during training, as opposed to unseen classes that appear only at test time.
overfits:
Fits the training data so closely that it performs worse on new data it has not seen.
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The paper
Conditional Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
Kaiyang Zhou, Jingkang Yang, Chen Change Loy and Ziwei Liu
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · published 2022 · arXiv 2203.05557
The paper finds that CoOp's learned prompts generalise poorly to unseen classes, and proposes CoCoOp, which generates a prompt for each image and generalises better to unseen classes and other domains.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 15 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
CoOp learns prompt words from a few labelled images, but the claim is that these prompts work mainly for the classes seen during training. If so, adapting a vision-language model this way could cost it the flexibility to recognise new categories, which is a main attraction of models like CLIP. This problem motivates the paper's alternative, CoCoOp, which makes the prompt depend on each image.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 15 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
The story so far
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What the authors did
The authors studied CoOp, a method that adapts the CLIP vision-language model using learned prompts, and tested it on classes unseen in training. They then proposed CoCoOp and ran extensive experiments comparing the two.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
CoOp's learned context is not generalisable to wider unseen classes within the same dataset, suggesting overfitting to base classes.
CoCoOp adds a lightweight neural network that generates an input-conditional token for each image, giving dynamic prompts that are less sensitive to class shift.
Experiments show CoCoOp generalises much better than CoOp to unseen classes, shows promising transfer beyond a single dataset, and gives stronger domain generalisation.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"In our study we identify a critical problem of CoOp: the learned context is not generalizable to wider unseen classes within the same dataset, suggesting that CoOp overfits base classes observed during training."
(Zhou et al., IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings, 2022)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): The paper reports that prompts learned by CoOp do not generalise to unseen classes in the same dataset, suggesting overfitting to the training classes.
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Refuted if CoOp’s accuracy on the unseen‑class split differs from its accuracy on the base‑class split by less than 5 %.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Kaiyang Zhou, Jingkang Yang, Chen Change Loy and 1 other (2022), Conditional Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings. Ecdysis, claim ext:50e2908dcc762fe8. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:50e2908dcc762fe8
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