arXiv:2508.12643cs.CV2025-08

提出新框架,让模型在测试时快速适应新场景并记住旧知识。

Learn Faster and Remember More: Balancing Exploration and Exploitation for Continual Test-time Adaptation

  • 用多层一致性正则化加速对新领域的适应
  • 通过历史检查点回放机制防止遗忘旧知识
  • 适合需要持续学习的部署场景,如自动驾驶

持续测试时适应(CTTA)旨在推理过程中将源预训练模型适应到不断变化的目标领域。理想方法应快速适应新领域(探索),同时保留并利用先前遇到领域的知识以应对未来相似领域(利用)。现有方法通常基于神经网络深层输出调整预测,但领域偏移主要影响浅层特征,从深层预测调整效率低下,导致探索迟缓;单一模型在探索中不可避免地遗忘旧知识,无法利用历史经验应对相似未来场景。为此,本文提出一种均值教师框架,实现探索与利用的平衡(BEE)。针对前者,引入多层一致性正则化(MCR)损失,对齐学生与教师模型的中间特征,加速当前领域适应;针对后者,采用互补锚点回放(CAR)机制,复用历史检查点(锚点),恢复多样领域所需的互补知识。实验表明,该方法在多个基准上显著优于当前最优方法,验证了其在CTTA任务中的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Continual Test-Time Adaptation (CTTA) aims to adapt a source pre-trained model to continually changing target domains during inference. As a fundamental principle, an ideal CTTA method should rapidly adapt to new domains (exploration) while retaining and exploiting knowledge from previously encountered domains to handle similar domains in the future. Despite significant advances, balancing exploration and exploitation in CTTA is still challenging: 1) Existing methods focus on adjusting predictions based on deep-layer outputs of neural networks. However, domain shifts typically affect shallow features, which are inefficient to be adjusted from deep predictions, leading to dilatory exploration; 2) A single model inevitably forgets knowledge of previous domains during the exploration, making it incapable of exploiting historical knowledge to handle similar future domains. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a mean teacher framework that strikes an appropriate Balance between Exploration and Exploitation (BEE) during the CTTA process. For the former challenge, we introduce a Multi-level Consistency Regularization (MCR) loss that aligns the intermediate features of the student and teacher models, accelerating adaptation to the current domain. For the latter challenge, we employ a Complementary Anchor Replay (CAR) mechanism to reuse historical checkpoints (anchors), recovering complementary knowledge for diverse domains. Experiments show that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on several benchmarks, demonstrating its effectiveness for CTTA tasks.

持续学习测试时适应知识保留模型更新

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