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Christopher Liao

4 accepted papers

2025

Multimodal Unsupervised Domain Generalization by Retrieving Across the Modality Gap

ICLR 2025poster

Domain generalization (DG) is an important problem that learns a model which generalizes to unseen test domains leveraging one or more source domains, under the assumption of shared label spaces. However, most DG methods assume access to abundant source data in the target label space, a requirement…

2024

Descriptor and Word Soups: Overcoming the Parameter Efficiency Accuracy Tradeoff for Out-of-Distribution Few-shot Learning

CVPR 2024poster

Over the past year a large body of multimodal research has emerged around zero-shot evaluation using GPT descriptors. These studies boost the zero-shot accuracy of pretrained VL models with an ensemble of label-specific text generated by GPT. A recent study WaffleCLIP demonstrated that similar zero-…

2023

Supervised Metric Learning to Rank for Retrieval via Contextual Similarity Optimization

ICML 2023poster

There is extensive interest in metric learning methods for image retrieval. Many metric learning loss functions focus on learning a correct ranking of training samples, but strongly overfit semantically inconsistent labels and require a large amount of data. To address these shortcomings, we propose…

2022

Faster Algorithms for Learning Convex Functions

ICML 2022spotlight

The task of approximating an arbitrary convex function arises in several learning problems such as convex regression, learning with a difference of convex (DC) functions, and learning Bregman or $f$-divergences. In this paper, we develop and analyze an approach for solving a broad range of convex fu…