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CLAY: Conditional Visual Similarity Modulation in Vision-Language Embedding Space

Sohwi Lim , Lee Hyoseok , Jungjoon Park , Tae-Hyun Oh
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keywords conditional visual similarityvision-language modelsimage retrievalembedding space modulationno-training adaptationmulti-conditioned retrievalCLAY-EVAL dataset
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The pith

CLAY reframes pretrained vision-language embeddings as text-conditional similarity spaces for flexible image retrieval without retraining.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper tries to establish that visual similarity metrics can be made adaptive to user-specified text conditions by modulating the space of existing pretrained models rather than learning new ones. This would matter because it lets retrieval systems respond to multiple simultaneous interests without the heavy cost of fine-tuning or maintaining separate models. CLAY keeps visual embeddings fixed and applies text conditions only at similarity computation time. It introduces a synthetic dataset to test this under varied conditions and reports strong accuracy with better efficiency than prior approaches.

Core claim

CLAY achieves high retrieval accuracy and notable computational efficiency by reframing the embedding space of pretrained Vision-Language Models as a text-conditional similarity space without additional training. This separates textual conditioning from visual feature extraction to support multi-conditioned retrieval using fixed visual embeddings.

What carries the argument

The modulation of similarity computation in the VLM embedding space by textual conditions, which produces conditional similarities while visual embeddings remain unchanged and no fine-tuning occurs.

If this is right

  • Image retrieval can incorporate multiple user conditions at once without increased model size.
  • Systems can avoid retraining or fine-tuning for new similarity criteria.
  • Computational costs drop because visual features are extracted once and reused.
  • The CLAY-EVAL dataset enables standardized testing of conditional retrieval methods.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Search interfaces could let users combine conditions on the fly for more personalized results.
  • Similar modulation might apply to other embedding spaces like audio or text-only models.
  • Future work could test if this holds when conditions conflict or are very specific.
  • Deployment on edge devices becomes feasible due to the efficiency gains.

Load-bearing premise

Existing pretrained vision-language models already encode enough information in their embeddings that text can selectively activate the right similarities without distorting the space.

What would settle it

A test where for a given text condition like 'focus on color', the top retrieved images match human judgment on similarity under that condition at rates no better than random or fixed similarity baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.11539 by Jungjoon Park, Lee Hyoseok, Sohwi Lim, Tae-Hyun Oh.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Our proposed concept-based conditional image retrieval method retrieves images focusing on the semantic aspects specified by the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Illustration of the concept of CLAY. Our method adap￾tively computes conditional similarity between images by modulat￾ing the original similarity space into a conditional similarity space within the representation space of VLMs. vious methods dedicated to single-condition settings [23, 50]. Due to a lack of a standard benchmark of a multi-conditional retrieval task, we construct a synthetic evaluation data… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Conditional similarity computation pipeline. (a) Given a condition, we construct the manifold-aware textual subspace with the condition text features in advance, and generate the condition-aware projection matrix Pc. (b) At inference, we compute the conditional similarity between the query and database images by projecting the visual features onto the textual subspace with Pc. leverages the visual features… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Our CLAY-EVAL dataset statistics. We construct a synthetic dataset with diverse condition annotations, consisting of (a) object entity and (b) human entity. For both, the left column shows sample images demonstrating visual naturalness, and the right column visualizes the distributions of key attributes, show￾ing diversity. Percentages are truncated to one decimal place and annotation text labels are abbre… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparison of our method with competing methods. For each query image and condition text pair, we compare the top-5 retrieved results from (a) CLIP-B, (b) InstructBLIP, (c) GeneCIS, and (d) our method. We also report Average Precision (AP) in each retrieval result. Green boxes indicate correctly retrieved images, while incorrect retrievals are shown in red boxes. [Location] [Species] Query Top-… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative result on Oxfordpets dataset. We visual￾ize the top-5 retrieved results with condition dog species and location. Since no ground-truth location labels are available, we present qualitative examples only. performance across diverse datasets and varying condition types without incurring high computational overhead in the symmetric setting. In addition, CLAY can easily be ex￾tended to multi-condit… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Representation space visualization with t-SNE. We report t-SNE of CLIP-B and ours (CLIP-B) on CLAY-Human under condition (a) action, (b) background, and (c) age. The features with the same label are shown in the same color for easy interpretation. Compared to the fixed representation space in CLIP-B, our method forms more discriminative spaces compliant with given conditions. Specifically, since GeneCIS fo… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Human perception of visual similarity is inherently adaptive and subjective, depending on the users' interests and focus. However, most image retrieval systems fail to reflect this flexibility, relying on a fixed, monolithic metric that cannot incorporate multiple conditions simultaneously. To address this, we propose CLAY, an adaptive similarity computation method that reframes the embedding space of pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as a text-conditional similarity space without additional training. This design separates the textual conditioning process and visual feature extraction, allowing highly efficient and multi-conditioned retrieval with fixed visual embeddings. We also construct a synthetic evaluation dataset CLAY-EVAL, for comprehensive assessment under diverse conditioned retrieval settings. Experiments on standard datasets and our proposed dataset show that CLAY achieves high retrieval accuracy and notable computational efficiency compared to previous works.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes CLAY, a training-free method that reframes the embedding space of pretrained Vision-Language Models as a text-conditional similarity space. Textual conditioning is separated from visual feature extraction, with visual embeddings kept fixed to enable efficient multi-conditioned image retrieval. The authors introduce the synthetic CLAY-EVAL dataset and report that experiments on standard datasets plus CLAY-EVAL demonstrate high retrieval accuracy and computational efficiency relative to prior work.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the approach would enable flexible, user-specified conditional retrieval without model updates or fine-tuning, offering clear efficiency advantages for practical systems. The fixed-embedding design and introduction of CLAY-EVAL for diverse conditioned settings are positive contributions. Significance is limited by the untested premise that pretrained VLM spaces already encode the structures needed for arbitrary conditions.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): The claims of high retrieval accuracy and notable efficiency are stated without any quantitative numbers, error bars, baseline tables, or ablation results in the abstract and are only summarized at high level in the experiments section; this absence directly undermines evaluation of the central no-training claim.
  2. [§3] §3 (Method): The modulation step that produces conditional similarity from fixed visual embeddings is presented as sufficient for arbitrary text conditions, yet no analysis, failure-case study, or out-of-distribution test is supplied to show that the pretrained space contains the required non-linear feature re-weightings; this assumption is load-bearing for the entire training-free result.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] The description of how multiple conditions are combined could be made more precise with an explicit formula or pseudocode in the method section.
  2. [§4.1] CLAY-EVAL construction details (prompt templates, condition diversity metrics) should be expanded in the supplementary material or a dedicated subsection to allow reproduction.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for their constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address the major comments point by point below and outline the revisions we plan to make to improve the clarity and substantiation of our claims.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): The claims of high retrieval accuracy and notable efficiency are stated without any quantitative numbers, error bars, baseline tables, or ablation results in the abstract and are only summarized at high level in the experiments section; this absence directly undermines evaluation of the central no-training claim.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract and experiments section would benefit from more specific quantitative details to support the claims. In the revised version, we will update the abstract to include key numerical results, such as the top-1 retrieval accuracy on CLAY-EVAL and efficiency comparisons (e.g., inference time reductions). We will also expand §4 to present full baseline tables, ablation studies on the modulation components, and error bars from multiple experimental runs, providing a more rigorous evaluation of the training-free method. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3] §3 (Method): The modulation step that produces conditional similarity from fixed visual embeddings is presented as sufficient for arbitrary text conditions, yet no analysis, failure-case study, or out-of-distribution test is supplied to show that the pretrained space contains the required non-linear feature re-weightings; this assumption is load-bearing for the entire training-free result.

    Authors: This is a valid point regarding the foundational assumption of our approach. While the empirical results across multiple datasets, including the diverse conditioned scenarios in CLAY-EVAL, demonstrate the effectiveness of the modulation in practice, we recognize the value of additional analysis. We will add to the revised manuscript a discussion in §3 on the properties of the pretrained embedding space that enable the conditional similarity, along with selected failure cases and tests on out-of-distribution conditions to better illustrate the limits and capabilities of the method without requiring training. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation is self-contained

full rationale

The paper's core proposal is a methodological reframing of pretrained VLM embedding spaces into a text-conditional similarity space via separation of conditioning and fixed visual feature extraction, with no additional training. The abstract and description contain no equations, fitted parameters, or predictions that reduce to inputs by construction. No self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems, no ansatzes are smuggled, and no known results are merely renamed. The approach relies on external pretrained models as independent inputs, making the derivation non-circular and self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The abstract introduces no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities beyond standard use of pretrained VLMs and a new synthetic evaluation dataset.

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