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PromptHub: Enhancing Multi-Prompt Visual In-Context Learning with Locality-Aware Fusion, Concentration and Alignment

Tianci Luo, Jinpeng Wang, Shiyu Qin, Niu Lian, Yan Feng, Bin Chen, Chun Yuan, Shu-Tao Xia

Abstract

Visual In-Context Learning (VICL) aims to complete vision tasks by imitating pixel demonstrations. Recent work Condenser pioneered prompt fusion that combines the advantages of various demonstrations, which shows a promising way to extend VICL. Unfortunately, the patch-wise fusion framework and model-agnostic supervision hinder the exploitation of informative cues, thereby limiting performance gains. To overcome this deficiency, we introduce PromptHub, a framework that holistically strengthens multi-prompting through locality-aware fusion, concentration and alignment. PromptHub exploits spatial priors to capture richer contextual information, employs complementary concentration, alignment, and prediction objectives to mutually guide training, and incorporates data augmentation to further reinforce supervision. Extensive experiments on three fundamental vision tasks demonstrate the superiority of PromptHub. Moreover, we validate its universality, transferability, and robustness across diverse backbones, out-of-distribution settings, and various retrieval scenarios. This work establishes a reliable locality-aware paradigm for prompt fusion, moving beyond prior patch-wise approaches. Code will be available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/PromptHub-1770.

visual in-context learningvisual promptprompt fusionlocality-aware
BibTeX
@inproceedings{
luo2026prompthub,
title={PromptHub: Enhancing Multi-Prompt Visual In-Context Learning with Locality-Aware Fusion, Concentration and Alignment},
author={Tianci Luo and Jinpeng Wang and Shiyu Qin and Niu Lian and Yan Feng and Bin Chen and Chun Yuan and Shu-Tao Xia},
booktitle={The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=FBbO5I40VZ}
}
PromptHub: Enhancing Multi-Prompt Visual In-Context Learning with Locality-Aware Fusion, Concentration and Alignment · ICLR 2026