arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-06-30
Criterion-Conditional In-Context Learning: Evaluating Criterion-Shift Adaptation in Vision-Language Models
Kaiyun Yang, Ruilin Yang, Zhimin Yao, J. Wang, Wei Ge
Vision-language models can perform new tasks without parameter updates through in-context learning (ICL), whose core mechanism is utilizing the support set for task induction. In the standard ICL setting, once the task is induced, its decision criterion remains fixed. However, in…