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What Does Prompt Learning Change? -A Natural-Language Concept Analysis of Vision-Language Models

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

Prompt learning adapts vision-language models such as CLIP by optimizing continuous prompt vectors, but the learned prompts are difficult to interpret in natural language. We present PromptSpLiCE, a post-hoc method that expresses each class-conditioned text embedding as a sparse combination of concepts from a fixed natural-language dictionary. Using the same dictionary before and after prompt learning allows us to compare changes in their concept profiles. We evaluate PromptSpLiCE on CoOp, a representative prompt-learning method, across 11 image-classification datasets. The concept profiles ch

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