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arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-10

TCLA: Training-Free Class-wise Logit Adaptation for Medical Vision-Language Models

Tianyou Jiang, Ziyu Zhou

Medical Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit strong zero-shot performance, yet their effectiveness still declines on out-of-distribution (OOD) data due to domain shifts and class bias inherited from large-scale pretraining. Existing few-shot adaptation methods typically introduce additional trainable components, which can be unstable in extremely low-data regimes (e.g., 1-shot), and lack robustness on different medical data. We present TCLA, a purely training-free few-shot adaptation method for Medical VLMs, which is fast and model-agnostic. TCLA corrects inference logits based on a small set of support samples, boosting pretrained VLMs performance by improving inter-class deconfusion and reducing domain shift. Extensive experiments on nine datasets across multiple medical imaging modalities including X-ray, Ultrasound, MRI, CT, Histopathology, demonstrate that TCLA consistently improves OOD performance of Medical VLMs and, in most of cases, outperforms existing training-based adaptation methods.

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