arXiv:2505.23830cs.CL2025-05AAAI被引 6

解决多模态大模型专家同质化与路由僵化问题,提升性能。

EvoMoE: Expert Evolution in Mixture of Experts for Multimodal Large Language Models

  • 通过专家演化机制从单一专家逐步生成多样化专家。
  • 提出动态感知令牌的路由器,按模态和特征分配专家。
  • 在多个基准上超越现有稀疏多模态模型,适合多模态任务研究者。

近期研究表明,混合专家(MoE)方法显著提升了大语言模型(LLM)的容量并改善下游任务表现。在此基础上,多模态大语言模型(MLLMs)越来越多采用MoE技术。然而,现有多模态MoE微调方法面临两大挑战:专家同质化与路由器僵化。专家同质化源于专家仅通过复制LLM中的前馈网络(FFN)参数初始化,导致专家功能趋同,削弱了MoE架构本应实现的多样性。路由器僵化则因普遍使用静态线性路由器进行专家选择,无法区分视觉与文本标记,造成图像与文本的专家分布相似。为此,我们提出EvoMoE,一种创新的MoE微调框架。EvoMoE设计了精细的专家初始化策略,通过“专家演化”过程从单个可训练专家逐步生成多个鲁棒专家,专门应对严重的专家同质化问题。同时引入动态感知令牌的路由器(DTR),基于标记的模态和内在特征值动态分配专家,借助超网络为每个令牌动态生成路由权重。大量实验表明,EvoMoE在多种多模态基准测试中显著优于其他稀疏多模态模型,包括MME、MMBench、TextVQA和POPE。结果表明,通过解决专家同质化与路由器僵化问题,EvoMoE有效提升了MLLM的性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent advancements have shown that the Mixture of Experts (MoE) approach significantly enhances the capacity of large language models (LLMs) and improves performance on downstream tasks. Building on these promising results, multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have increasingly adopted MoE techniques. However, existing multi-modal MoE tuning methods typically face two key challenges: expert uniformity and router rigidity. Expert uniformity occurs because MoE experts are often initialized by simply replicating the FFN parameters from LLMs, leading to homogenized expert functions and weakening the intended diversification of the MoE architecture. Meanwhile, router rigidity stems from the prevalent use of static linear routers for expert selection, which fail to distinguish between visual and textual tokens, resulting in similar expert distributions for image and text. To address these limitations, we propose EvoMoE, an innovative MoE tuning framework. EvoMoE introduces a meticulously designed expert initialization strategy that progressively evolves multiple robust experts from a single trainable expert, a process termed expert evolution that specifically targets severe expert homogenization. Furthermore, we introduce the Dynamic Token-aware Router (DTR), a novel routing mechanism that allocates input tokens to appropriate experts based on their modality and intrinsic token values. This dynamic routing is facilitated by hypernetworks, which dynamically generate routing weights tailored for each individual token. Extensive experiments demonstrate that EvoMoE significantly outperforms other sparse MLLMs across a variety of multi-modal benchmarks, including MME, MMBench, TextVQA, and POPE. Our results highlight the effectiveness of EvoMoE in enhancing the performance of MLLMs by addressing the critical issues of expert uniformity and router rigidity.

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