LANCE通过一次性低秩分解,实现边缘设备高效持续学习。
LANCE: Low Rank Activation Compression for Efficient On-Device Continual Learning
- 用一次高阶SVD构建可复用的低秩子空间,避免重复计算。
- 激活存储压缩最高达250倍,保持与全反向传播相当的准确率。
- 适合资源受限的边缘设备持续学习,内存开销极低。
设备端学习对个性化、隐私保护和长期适应至关重要,但受限于反向传播中激活值存储的高内存开销。现有激活压缩方法虽降低内存,却依赖重复低秩分解,带来计算负担,且未应用于持续学习。本文提出LANCE(低秩激活压缩),采用一次性高阶奇异值分解(SVD)生成可复用的低秩子空间,用于激活投影,消除重复分解,显著降低内存与计算开销。固定的低秩子空间支持任务分配至正交子空间,无需存储大规模任务专属矩阵,实现设备端持续学习。实验表明,LANCE在CIFAR-10/100、Oxford-IIIT Pets、Flowers102和CUB-200上将激活存储减少最高达250倍,同时保持与全反向传播相当的精度。在持续学习基准(Split CIFAR-100、Split MiniImageNet、5-Datasets)上,性能优于正交梯度投影方法,且内存消耗仅为后者的极小部分。结果表明,LANCE是边缘设备高效微调与持续学习的实用且可扩展方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
On-device learning is essential for personalization, privacy, and long-term adaptation in resource-constrained environments. Achieving this requires efficient learning, both fine-tuning existing models and continually acquiring new tasks without catastrophic forgetting. Yet both settings are constrained by high memory cost of storing activations during backpropagation. Existing activation compression methods reduce this cost but rely on repeated low-rank decompositions, introducing computational overhead. Also, such methods have not been explored for continual learning. We propose LANCE (Low-rank Activation Compression), a framework that performs one-shot higher-order Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to obtain a reusable low-rank subspace for activation projection. This eliminates repeated decompositions, reducing both memory and computation. Moreover, fixed low-rank subspaces further enable on-device continual learning by allocating tasks to orthogonal subspaces without storing large task-specific matrices. Experiments show that LANCE reduces activation storage up to 250$\times$ while maintaining accuracy comparable to full backpropagation on CIFAR-10/100, Oxford-IIIT Pets, Flowers102, and CUB-200 datasets. On continual learning benchmarks (Split CIFAR-100, Split MiniImageNet, 5-Datasets), it performs competitively with orthogonal gradient projection methods at a fraction of the memory cost. These results position LANCE as a practical and scalable solution for efficient fine-tuning and continual learning on edge devices.
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