Towards Continual Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29923v1
• Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:39:14 GMT
• Title: Towards Continual Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
• Abstract summary: Diversify, Anchor, and Filter (DAF) is a framework that augments entropy-based adaptation with a marginal diversity loss that resists collapse.<n>We evaluate on five datasets spanning natural scenes, autonomous driving, underwater imagery, and remote sensing with their corrupted variants.
• Score: 7.440412390819483
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) relies on vision-language alignment to recognize arbitrary text-defined categories, yet this alignment is fragile under continual test-time distribution shift. Our diagnostic analysis reveals that entropy minimization drives patch-level class collapse, continual updates erode vision-language alignment, and redundant gradients from low-shift samples waste computation. We propose Diversify, Anchor, and Filter (DAF), a stabilization framework that augments entropy-based adaptation with a marginal diversity loss that resists collapse, a cross-modal anchor consistency loss that constrains feature drift relative to a frozen source model, and feature salience filtering that skips low-value backward passes to offset part of the source-anchor overhead. We evaluate on five datasets spanning natural scenes, autonomous driving, underwater imagery, and remote sensing with their corrupted variants. Across the evaluated continual shifts, DAF remains stable where entropy minimization collapses, improving mIoU by over 8 points on Pascal VOC20-C, over 9 points on LoveDA, and over 3 points on Foggy Cityscapes compared to the source model, and is robust to aggressive adaptation and learning rate choices.

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