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VTAB (Visual Task Adaptation Benchmark)

Introduced by Xiaohua Zhai et al. in The Visual Task Adaptation Benchmark25 Sep 2019 archive 2025-07-28

The Visual Task Adaptation Benchmark (VTAB) is a benchmark designed to evaluate general visual representations². It consists of a diverse and challenging suite of tasks². The benchmark defines a good general visual representation as one that yields good performance on unseen tasks, when trained on limited task-specific data².

The VTAB benchmark contains the following 19 tasks that are derived from public datasets¹: - Caltech101 - CIFAR-100 - CLEVR distance prediction - CLEVR counting - Diabetic Rethinopathy - Dmlab Frames - dSprites orientation prediction - dSprites location prediction - Describable Textures Dataset (DTD) - EuroSAT - KITTI distance prediction - 102 Category Flower Dataset - Oxford IIIT Pet dataset - PatchCamelyon - Resisc45 - Small NORB azimuth prediction - Small NORB elevation prediction - SUN397 - SVHN

The given model is independently fine-tuned for solving each of the above tasks¹. Average accuracy across all tasks is used to measure the model's performance¹. Detailed description of all tasks, evaluation protocol, and other details can be found in the VTAB paper¹.

(1) Visual Task Adaptation Benchmark. https://google-research.github.io/task_adaptation/. (2) GitHub - google-research/task_adaptation. https://github.com/google-research/task_adaptation. (3) GitHub - KMnP/vpt: ️ Visual Prompt Tuning [ECCV 2022] https://arxiv .... https://github.com/KMnP/vpt.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 4 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Image Classification VTAB-1k ALIGN (50 hypers/task) Top-1 Accuracy 79.99 Scaling Up Visual and Vision-Language Representation... facebookresearch/metaclip +4 34 Compare
Visual Prompt Tuning VTAB-1k(Natural<7>) SPT-Deep(ViT-B/16_MoCo_v3_pretrained_ImageNet-1K) Mean Accuracy 76.20 Revisiting the Power of Prompt for Visual Tuning — 10 Compare
Visual Prompt Tuning VTAB-1k(Specialized<4>) SPT-Deep(ViT-B/16_MoCo_v3_pretrained_ImageNet-1K) Mean Accuracy 84.95 Revisiting the Power of Prompt for Visual Tuning — 10 Compare
Visual Prompt Tuning VTAB-1k(Structured<8>) SPT-Deep(ViT-B/16_MAE_pretrained_ImageNet-1K) Mean Accuracy 59.23 Revisiting the Power of Prompt for Visual Tuning — 10 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

12 shown of 12 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 202. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Revisiting the Power of Prompt for Visual Tuning 0 12 4 Feb 2024 not harvested
Improving Visual Prompt Tuning for Self-supervised Vision Transformers 1 6 8 Jun 2023 ran 4 of 4 samples (0 unverified)
PVP: Pre-trained Visual Parameter-Efficient Tuning 0 1 26 Apr 2023 not harvested
Contextual Squeeze-and-Excitation for Efficient Few-Shot Image Classification 1 2 20 Jun 2022 ran 3 of 3 samples (0 unverified)
Visual Prompt Tuning 6 12 23 Mar 2022 ran 17 of 27 samples (10 unverified; 15 pointer-only for licence)
Scaling Vision Transformers 1 1 8 Jun 2021 not harvested
Scaling Up Visual and Vision-Language Representation Learning With Noisy Text Supervision 5 1 11 Feb 2021 ran 8 of 10 samples (2 unverified; 9 pointer-only for licence)
Deep Ensembles for Low-Data Transfer Learning 0 1 14 Oct 2020 not harvested
Scalable Transfer Learning with Expert Models 0 1 28 Sep 2020 not harvested
Big Transfer (BiT): General Visual Representation Learning 9 4 24 Dec 2019 ran 3 of 10 samples (7 unverified)
Self-Supervised Learning of Video-Induced Visual Invariances 0 1 5 Dec 2019 not harvested
A Large-scale Study of Representation Learning with the Visual Task Adaptation Benchmark 2 22 1 Oct 2019 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • VTAB-1k
  • VTAB-1k(Natural<7>)
  • VTAB-1k(Specialized<4>)
  • VTAB-1k(Structured<8>)
  • VTAB

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