Darina Koishigarina

2 accepted papers

2026

CLIP Behaves like a Bag-of-Words Model Cross-modally but not Uni-modally

Darina Koishigarina, Arnas Uselis, Seong Joon Oh

ICLR 2026poster

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) has become a popular choice for various downstream tasks. However, recent studies have questioned its ability to represent compositional concepts effectively. These works suggest that CLIP often acts like a bag-of-words (BoW) model, interpreting images a…

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2026

How can embedding models bind concepts?

Arnas Uselis, Darina Koishigarina, Seong Joon Oh

ICML 2026spotlight

Humans easily determine which color belongs to which shape in multi-object scenes, an ability known as concept binding. Vision–language embedding models such as CLIP struggle with binding: they recognize individual concepts but fail to represent which concepts form which objects. Although CLIP behav…

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