VIPAMIN: Visual Prompt Initialization via Embedding Selection and Subspace Expansion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16446v1
• Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:49:48 GMT
• Title: VIPAMIN: Visual Prompt Initialization via Embedding Selection and Subspace Expansion
• Abstract summary: We introduce VIPAMIN, a visual prompt strategy that enhances adaptation of self-supervised models.<n>VIPAMIN consistently improves performance across diverse tasks and dataset sizes.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In the era of large-scale foundation models, fully fine-tuning pretrained networks for each downstream task is often prohibitively resource-intensive. Prompt tuning offers a lightweight alternative by introducing tunable prompts while keeping the backbone frozen. However, existing visual prompt tuning methods often fail to specialize the prompts or enrich the representation space--especially when applied to self-supervised backbones. We show that these limitations become especially pronounced in challenging tasks and data-scarce settings, where effective adaptation is most critical. In this work, we introduce VIPAMIN, a visual prompt initialization strategy that enhances adaptation of self-supervised models by (1) aligning prompts with semantically informative regions in the embedding space, and (2) injecting novel representational directions beyond the pretrained subspace. Despite its simplicity--requiring only a single forward pass and lightweight operations--VIPAMIN consistently improves performance across diverse tasks and dataset sizes, setting a new state of the art in visual prompt tuning. Our code is available at https://github.com/iamjaekyun/vipamin.

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