MINGLE通过动态融合低秩专家,缓解测试时模型合并的遗忘问题。
MINGLE: Mixture of Null-Space Gated Low-Rank Experts for Test-Time Continual Model Merging
- 采用低秩专家混合架构,参数高效且适应测试分布变化。
- 在多个任务顺序下平均性能领先基线7-9%。
- 适合需要持续学习和测试时自适应的部署场景。
持续模型合并无需原始训练数据即可依次整合独立微调的模型,是持续学习的高效可扩展方案。然而现有方法面临两大挑战:任务间参数干扰导致灾难性遗忘,以及对演化测试分布适应能力有限。为此,我们提出测试时持续模型合并(TTCMM)任务,利用少量未标注测试样本在推理阶段缓解参数冲突并应对分布偏移。本文提出MINGLE框架,采用参数高效的低秩专家混合架构,在动态合并模型的同时提升对测试分布演化的适应性。为减少遗忘,提出零空间约束门控机制,将门控更新限制在与先前任务表示正交的子空间内,抑制旧任务激活并保留历史知识。进一步设计自适应松弛策略,根据测试时观测到的干扰信号动态调整约束强度,平衡稳定性与适应性。在标准持续合并基准上的大量实验表明,MINGLE实现强泛化能力,显著降低遗忘,在不同任务顺序下平均超越此前最先进方法7-9%。代码已开源:https://github.com/zihuanqiu/MINGLE
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Continual model merging integrates independently fine-tuned models sequentially without access to the original training data, offering a scalable and efficient solution for continual learning. However, existing methods face two critical challenges: parameter interference among tasks, which leads to catastrophic forgetting, and limited adaptability to evolving test distributions. To address these issues, we introduce the task of Test-Time Continual Model Merging (TTCMM), which leverages a small set of unlabeled test samples during inference to alleviate parameter conflicts and handle distribution shifts. We propose MINGLE, a novel framework for TTCMM. MINGLE employs a mixture-of-experts architecture with parameter-efficient, low-rank experts, which enhances adaptability to evolving test distributions while dynamically merging models to mitigate conflicts. To further reduce forgetting, we propose Null-Space Constrained Gating, which restricts gating updates to subspaces orthogonal to prior task representations, thereby suppressing activations on old tasks and preserving past knowledge. We further introduce an Adaptive Relaxation Strategy that adjusts constraint strength dynamically based on interference signals observed during test-time adaptation, striking a balance between stability and adaptability. Extensive experiments on standard continual merging benchmarks demonstrate that MINGLE achieves robust generalization, significantly reduces forgetting, and consistently surpasses previous state-of-the-art methods by 7-9% on average across diverse task orders. Our code is available at: https://github.com/zihuanqiu/MINGLE
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