用参数空间方向引导梯度,缓解多模态模型学新任务时遗忘旧知识的问题。
Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning with Dynamic Gradient Guidance
- 用当前与旧最优参数的向量近似丢失的梯度,指导新任务学习。
- 在多个数据集上达到当前最好性能,且不增加模型大小。
- 适合需要持续学习多模态任务但资源受限的场景。
多模态持续指令微调使多模态大语言模型能够顺序适应新任务并保留已有知识。然而,该范式面临灾难性遗忘问题:学习新任务会导致旧任务性能下降。本文提出新见解,将灾难性遗忘视为新任务学习中缺少旧任务梯度所致。方法通过利用参数空间的几何特性,以当前参数与以往最优参数之间的方向向量作为梯度引导来近似缺失梯度。该近似梯度可与有限回放缓冲区中的真实梯度结合,并通过伯努利采样策略动态调节模型稳定性和可塑性。在多个多模态持续指令微调数据集上的大量实验表明,本方法无需模型扩展即可实现当前最佳性能,有效缓解灾难性遗忘,同时保持紧凑架构。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multimodal continual instruction tuning enables multimodal large language models to sequentially adapt to new tasks while building upon previously acquired knowledge. However, this continual learning paradigm faces the significant challenge of catastrophic forgetting, where learning new tasks leads to performance degradation on previous ones. In this paper, we introduce a novel insight into catastrophic forgetting by conceptualizing it as a problem of missing gradients from old tasks during new task learning. Our approach approximates these missing gradients by leveraging the geometric properties of the parameter space, specifically using the directional vector between current parameters and previously optimal parameters as gradient guidance. This approximated gradient can be further integrated with real gradients from a limited replay buffer and regulated by a Bernoulli sampling strategy that dynamically balances model stability and plasticity. Extensive experiments on multimodal continual instruction tuning datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance without model expansion, effectively mitigating catastrophic forgetting while maintaining a compact architecture.
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