Channel-Aware Probing for Multi-Channel Imaging

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12696v1
• Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:03:27 GMT
• Title: Channel-Aware Probing for Multi-Channel Imaging
• Authors: Umar Marikkar, Syed Sameed Husain, Muhammad Awais, Sara Atito,
• Abstract summary: Training and evaluating vision encoders on Multi-Channel Imaging (MCI) data remains challenging.<n>ChannelAware Probing (CAP) exploits intrinsic inter-channel diversity by controlling feature flow at both encoder and probe levels.
• Score: 9.507520646516719
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Training and evaluating vision encoders on Multi-Channel Imaging (MCI) data remains challenging as channel configurations vary across datasets, preventing fixed-channel training and limiting reuse of pre-trained encoders on new channel settings. Prior work trains MCI encoders but typically evaluates them via full fine-tuning, leaving probing with frozen pre-trained encoders comparatively underexplored. Existing studies that perform probing largely focus on improving representations, rather than how to best leverage fixed representations for downstream tasks. Although the latter problem has been studied in other domains, directly transferring those strategies to MCI yields weak results, even worse than training from scratch. We therefore propose Channel-Aware Probing (CAP), which exploits the intrinsic inter-channel diversity in MCI datasets by controlling feature flow at both the encoder and probe levels. CAP uses Independent Feature Encoding (IFE) to encode each channel separately, and Decoupled Pooling (DCP) to pool within channels before aggregating across channels. Across three MCI benchmarks, CAP consistently improves probing performance over the default probing protocol, matches fine-tuning from scratch, and largely reduces the gap to full fine-tuning from the same MCI pre-trained checkpoints. Code can be found in https://github.com/umarikkar/CAP.

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