
MD Fahim
- Research Assistant, CCDS
Research Interests
Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
Md Fahim, Md Farhan Ishmam, Mir Sazzat Hossain, M Ashraful Amin, Amin Ahsan Ali, AKM Rahman
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
In: 2026 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
IEEE, pp. 6496-6506
Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP exhibit strong generalization but struggle with few-shot adaptation due to the trade-off between gaining task-specific knowledge and preserving general performance. While multimodal adapters add trainable modules that improve alignment and excel in few-shot generality, they greatly increase the trainable parameter count while relying heavily on the prior layer’s frozen representation. Addressing these limitations, we introduce Recurrent Multi-Modal Adapter (R-MMA), a lightweight and efficient adapter that uses self-attention to compute a unified latent representation with a single set of shared adapter weights. Our attention-based alignment harmonizes the adapter outputs with the frozen encoder features before fusing the modalities, ensuring better preservation of pre-trained representations and cross-modal consistency. Our experiments show that R-MMA achieves state-of-the-art performance on most datasets for base-to-novel generalization, cross-dataset evaluation, and domain generalization, under few-shot settings. Our approach also achieves one of the highest forms of parameter efficiency with only a few trainable weight matrices for the whole network, regardless of its depth. Our code is available at: https://github.com/farhanishmam/R-MMA.

Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Bachelors
Independent University, Bangladesh
Machine Learning, Computer Vision

Machine Learning, Cognitive & Vision Science, Cybernetics, Surveillance & Security, ICT in Education, Health, & Agriculture, Human-Computer Interaction, Internet of Things, Robotics

Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Independent University, Bangladesh
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning