Calibrated and Robust Foundation Models for Vision-Language and Medical Image Tasks Under Distribution Shift

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Autori principali: Khan, Behraj, Syed, Tahir Qasim, Durrani, Nouman M., Naseem, Bilal, Ahmad, Shabir, Qureshi, Rizwan
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author Khan, Behraj
Syed, Tahir Qasim
Durrani, Nouman M.
Naseem, Bilal
Ahmad, Shabir
Qureshi, Rizwan
author_facet Khan, Behraj
Syed, Tahir Qasim
Durrani, Nouman M.
Naseem, Bilal
Ahmad, Shabir
Qureshi, Rizwan
contents Foundation models like CLIP and SAM have advanced computer vision and medical imaging via low-shot transfer learning, aiding CADD with limited data. However, their deployment faces two key challenges. \textit{distribution shift} where pre-training and post-training data distributions differ (e.g., due to inter-center image acquisition) and \textit{confidence misalignment}, which leads to overconfident errors. These issues surface differently, vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) suffer from 2D embedding shift (image-text misalignment), while medical models (e.g., SAM) encounter 3D domain shifts (e.g., scanner variation) and voxel-wise calibration need. Existing solutions are domain-specific. We propose \textbf{StaRFM}, a fusion of Fisher information penalty (FIP) and confidence misalignment penalty (CMP) tackling both challenges. It applies FIP, extended to 3D via patch-wise regularization, to reduce embedding shift, and CMP, reformulated for voxel-level predictions, to calibrate segmentation uncertainty. We derive PAC-Bayes bounds. FIP controls generalization via the Fisher-Rao norm, and CMP reduces calibration error via Brier score minimization. StaRFM surpasses baselines by \texttt{+}3.5\% accuracy and 28\% lower ECE on 19 vision datasets (e.g., ImageNet, Office-Home), achieves +4.2\% DSC over SAM-FT and 4.8mm HD95 on medical benchmarks (e.g., BraTS, ATLAS), and reduces cross-domain gaps by up to 20\%. The framework is plug-and-play, requiring minimal architectural changes. Code and models are available at: \href{https://anonymous.4open.science/r/StaRFM-C0CD/}{\textcolor{blue}{\underline{StaRFM}}}
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spellingShingle Calibrated and Robust Foundation Models for Vision-Language and Medical Image Tasks Under Distribution Shift
Khan, Behraj
Syed, Tahir Qasim
Durrani, Nouman M.
Naseem, Bilal
Ahmad, Shabir
Qureshi, Rizwan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Foundation models like CLIP and SAM have advanced computer vision and medical imaging via low-shot transfer learning, aiding CADD with limited data. However, their deployment faces two key challenges. \textit{distribution shift} where pre-training and post-training data distributions differ (e.g., due to inter-center image acquisition) and \textit{confidence misalignment}, which leads to overconfident errors. These issues surface differently, vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) suffer from 2D embedding shift (image-text misalignment), while medical models (e.g., SAM) encounter 3D domain shifts (e.g., scanner variation) and voxel-wise calibration need. Existing solutions are domain-specific. We propose \textbf{StaRFM}, a fusion of Fisher information penalty (FIP) and confidence misalignment penalty (CMP) tackling both challenges. It applies FIP, extended to 3D via patch-wise regularization, to reduce embedding shift, and CMP, reformulated for voxel-level predictions, to calibrate segmentation uncertainty. We derive PAC-Bayes bounds. FIP controls generalization via the Fisher-Rao norm, and CMP reduces calibration error via Brier score minimization. StaRFM surpasses baselines by \texttt{+}3.5\% accuracy and 28\% lower ECE on 19 vision datasets (e.g., ImageNet, Office-Home), achieves +4.2\% DSC over SAM-FT and 4.8mm HD95 on medical benchmarks (e.g., BraTS, ATLAS), and reduces cross-domain gaps by up to 20\%. The framework is plug-and-play, requiring minimal architectural changes. Code and models are available at: \href{https://anonymous.4open.science/r/StaRFM-C0CD/}{\textcolor{blue}{\underline{StaRFM}}}
title Calibrated and Robust Foundation Models for Vision-Language and Medical Image Tasks Under Distribution Shift
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09222