arXiv:2506.19072cs.CVcs.AI2025-06NeurIPS被引 4

用路由器精选多视觉专家知识,让小模型高效学会大模型的视觉理解能力。

HAWAII: Hierarchical Visual Knowledge Transfer for Efficient Vision-Language Models

  • 用教师专用LoRA适配器+路由机制,避免知识冲突。
  • 分粒度蒸馏:细粒度选关键图像令牌,粗粒度提炼通用知识。
  • 在多个任务上超越主流开源视觉语言模型,计算开销极低。

提升视觉语言模型(VLMs)的视觉理解能力对各类任务性能至关重要。尽管使用多个预训练视觉专家表现优异,但通常带来显著的训练与推理计算成本。为此,我们提出HAWAII框架,将多个视觉专家的知识蒸馏到单一视觉编码器中,使其以极小计算开销继承各专家的互补优势。为缓解不同教师间的知识冲突并实现教师特定知识切换,我们采用教师专用低秩适配器(LoRA)与对应路由机制,每个适配器对应一个教师,避免蒸馏过程中的噪声干扰。为实现高效知识蒸馏,我们设计细粒度与粗粒度蒸馏策略:细粒度层面利用标记重要性得分,自适应强调各教师中最信息丰富的标记;粗粒度层面则汇总多教师知识,通过一组通用知识LoRA适配器与路由传递给学生模型。在多个视觉语言任务上的大量实验表明,HAWAII优于当前主流开源VLMs。代码已公开于https://github.com/yimuwangcs/wise-hawaii。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Improving the visual understanding ability of vision-language models (VLMs) is crucial for enhancing their performance across various tasks. While using multiple pretrained visual experts has shown great promise, it often incurs significant computational costs during training and inference. To address this challenge, we propose HAWAII, a novel framework that distills knowledge from multiple visual experts into a single vision encoder, enabling it to inherit the complementary strengths of several experts with minimal computational overhead. To mitigate conflicts among different teachers and switch between different teacher-specific knowledge, instead of using a fixed set of adapters for multiple teachers, we propose to use teacher-specific Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) adapters with a corresponding router. Each adapter is aligned with a specific teacher, avoiding noisy guidance during distillation. To enable efficient knowledge distillation, we propose fine-grained and coarse-grained distillation. At the fine-grained level, token importance scores are employed to emphasize the most informative tokens from each teacher adaptively. At the coarse-grained level, we summarize the knowledge from multiple teachers and transfer it to the student using a set of general-knowledge LoRA adapters with a router. Extensive experiments on various vision-language tasks demonstrate the superiority of HAWAII compared to popular open-source VLMs. The code is available at https://github.com/yimuwangcs/wise-hawaii.

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