arxivcs.CV2026-07-24
Rethinking Layer-Wise Information Allocation for Vision Foundation Model Adaptation
Yuqi Li, Xi Xiao, Yunbei Zhang, Lin Zhao, Yu Li, Aiden Zhao, et al.
Vision foundation models are increasingly reused as frozen backbones for downstream visual recognition, making parameter-efficient adaptation a central problem. Prompt-based adaptation, including Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT), provides a lightweight way to specialize these models, b…