通过重要性权重分配,让多模态大模型在微调时既提升任务表现又不丢预训练知识。
Learn from Downstream and Be Yourself in Multimodal Large Language Model Fine-Tuning
- 基于预训练权重大小和微调梯度累积量评估参数重要性
- 只更新重要参数,显著提升下游任务性能同时减少泛化能力下降
- 适用于图像描述和视觉问答,对多种模型架构均有效
多模态大语言模型(MLLM)在多样化分布和任务中展现出强大泛化能力,主要归功于大规模预训练数据。微调已成为提升特定下游任务性能的常见方法,但在此过程中,模型容易遗忘预训练阶段学到的知识,导致泛化能力下降。为平衡泛化与专精之间的矛盾,本文提出基于冻结预训练权重幅度和累积微调梯度值来衡量预训练与微调分布下的参数重要性,并采用重要性感知的权重分配策略,仅选择性地更新相对重要的参数以适应下游任务。我们在多种MLLM架构上,针对图像描述和视觉问答任务进行了实证评估。全面实验分析表明该方法有效,关键模块的高效利用显著提升了下游专精性能,同时缓解了微调过程中的泛化退化问题。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities across diverse distributions and tasks, largely due to extensive pre-training datasets. Fine-tuning MLLM has become a common practice to improve performance on specific downstream tasks. However, during fine-tuning, MLLM often faces the risk of forgetting knowledge acquired during pre-training, which can result in a decline in generalization abilities. To balance the trade-off between generalization and specialization, we propose measuring the parameter importance for both pre-trained and fine-tuning distributions, based on frozen pre-trained weight magnitude and accumulated fine-tuning gradient values. We further apply an importance-aware weight allocation strategy, selectively updating relatively important parameters for downstream tasks. We conduct empirical evaluations on both image captioning and visual question-answering tasks using various MLLM architectures. The comprehensive experimental analysis demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed solution, highlighting the efficiency of the crucial modules in enhancing downstream specialization performance while mitigating generalization degradation in MLLM Fine-Tuning.
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