让多模态大模型动态调整结构,持续学习新任务。
Dynamic Mixture of Curriculum LoRA Experts for Continual Multimodal Instruction Tuning
- 用动态分配LoRA专家实现层间自适应,解决任务冲突。
- 按模态难度调节更新比例,缓解多模态不平衡问题。
- 适合需要持续学习新多模态任务的研究者和工程师。
持续多模态指令微调对适应多模态大模型(MLLMs)的演化任务至关重要。但现有方法采用固定架构,受限于静态模型容量,难以适应新任务。本文提出在参数预算约束下动态演化架构以实现持续任务适应,这是未被探索的新方向,并面临两大挑战:1)任务架构冲突,不同任务需不同层的适配;2)模态不平衡,不同任务对模态依赖程度不一,导致更新失衡。为此,我们提出动态课程LoRA专家混合(D-MoLE)方法,通过动态层间专家分配器自动分配LoRA专家,解决架构冲突,并分层路由指令以促进专家间知识共享。同时设计基于梯度的跨模态持续课程,根据任务内各模态的难度动态调整模块更新比例,缓解模态不平衡。大量实验表明,D-MoLE显著优于现有基线,在平均性能上提升15%。据我们所知,这是首个从架构演化视角研究MLLM持续学习的工作。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Continual multimodal instruction tuning is crucial for adapting Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to evolving tasks. However, most existing methods adopt a fixed architecture, struggling with adapting to new tasks due to static model capacity. We propose to evolve the architecture under parameter budgets for dynamic task adaptation, which remains unexplored and imposes two challenges: 1) task architecture conflict, where different tasks require varying layer-wise adaptations, and 2) modality imbalance, where different tasks rely unevenly on modalities, leading to unbalanced updates. To address these challenges, we propose a novel Dynamic Mixture of Curriculum LoRA Experts (D-MoLE) method, which automatically evolves MLLM's architecture with controlled parameter budgets to continually adapt to new tasks while retaining previously learned knowledge. Specifically, we propose a dynamic layer-wise expert allocator, which automatically allocates LoRA experts across layers to resolve architecture conflicts, and routes instructions layer-wisely to facilitate knowledge sharing among experts. Then, we propose a gradient-based inter-modal continual curriculum, which adjusts the update ratio of each module in MLLM based on the difficulty of each modality within the task to alleviate the modality imbalance problem. Extensive experiments show that D-MoLE significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving a 15% average improvement over the best baseline. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of continual learning for MLLMs from an architectural perspective.
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