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Rethinking Layer-Wise Information Allocation for Vision Foundation Model Adaptation

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TL;DR - Prompted Information Bottlenecks (PIB) improves parameter-efficient adaptation of frozen vision foundation models by explicitly regulating how task-relevant information is preserved and compressed across layers. It reports strong accuracy and robustness across 34 datasets while tuning only 0.35% of parameters on average.

  • Applies information-bottleneck principles to Visual Prompt Tuning’s layer-wise representations.
  • Retains useful local evidence in early layers while progressively suppressing nuisance factors and redundancy.
  • Reaches 92.1% on FGVC, 93.01% on HTA, and 77.33% on VTAB-1k.
  • Reduces shortcut reliance and improves performance under distribution shift and fine-grained recognition.

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Rethinking Layer-Wise Information Allocation for Vision Foundation Model Adaptation

arXiv cs.CV Yuqi Li, Xi Xiao, Yunbei Zhang, Lin Zhao, Yu Li, Aiden Zhao, Tianyang Wang, Hao Xu, Yingli Tian 2026-07-24 arXiv:2607.21973
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TL;DR - Prompted Information Bottlenecks (PIB) improves parameter-efficient adaptation of frozen vision foundation models by explicitly regulating how task-relevant information is preserved and compressed across layers. It reports strong accuracy and robustness across 34 datasets while tuning only 0.35% of parameters on average.

  • Applies information-bottleneck principles to Visual Prompt Tuning’s layer-wise representations.
  • Retains useful local evidence in early layers while progressively suppressing nuisance factors and redundancy.
  • Reaches 92.1% on FGVC, 93.01% on HTA, and 77.33% on VTAB-1k.
  • Reduces shortcut reliance and improves performance under distribution shift and fine-grained recognition.
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