What Drives Test-Time Adaptation for CLIP? A Controlled Empirical Study from an Update Perspective

arXiv:2606.14299 · cs.CV, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-06-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-06-12

Updated: 2026-10-12

Terminology

• Adaptation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Test-Time Adaptation — 2× in this paper
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Distribution Shifts — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Test-time Adaptation (TTA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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