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Condensed Test-Time Adaptation of VLMs for Action Recognition

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A novel training-free Condensed Dynamic Adapter C ON DA is proposed, which leverages vision-text alignment to guide vision-vision alignment and is compatible with arbitrary VLM and generalizes well across complex scenarios, such as long-term and egocentric scenarios.

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