# Contrastive Prompt Clustering for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation Source: [Contrastive Prompt Clustering for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-26T05:32:44.589Z Authors: Wangyu Wu, Zhenhong Chen, Xiaowen Ma, Wenqiao Zhang, Xianglin Qiu, Siqi Song, Xiaowei Huang, Fei Ma, Jimin Xiao Published: 2025-08-23T12:49:08.000Z ## Abstract Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has gained attention for its cost-effectiveness. Most existing methods emphasize inter-class separation, often neglecting the shared semantics among related categories and lacking fine-grained discrimination. To address this, we propose Contrastive Prompt Clustering (CPC), a novel WSSS framework. CPC exploits Large Language Models (LLMs) to derive category clusters that encode intrinsic inter-class relationships, and further introduces a class-aware patch-level contrastive loss to enforce intra-class consistency and inter-class separation. This hierarchical design leverages clusters as coarse-grained semantic priors while preserving fine-grained boundaries, thereby reducing confusion among visually similar categories. Experiments on PASCAL VOC 2012 and MS COCO 2014 demonstrate that CPC surpasses existing state-of-the-art methods in WSSS. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()