arXiv:2511.15375cs.LGcs.AI2025-11被引 1

只更新0.1%关键参数,避免大模型遗忘通用能力

Parameter Importance-Driven Continual Learning for Foundation Models

  • 用两个重要性评估器筛选核心参数进行更新
  • 在多语言和多模态模型上保持通用能力并达顶尖效果
  • 无需历史数据或增加参数,适合部署于真实场景

领域特定的后训练常导致灾难性遗忘,使基础模型丧失通用推理能力,限制其在动态现实环境中的适应性。在保留通用能力的同时学习下游领域知识,是大语言模型与多模态模型的核心挑战。传统持续学习方法如正则化、回放和架构隔离存在下游性能差、依赖不可访问的历史数据或增加额外参数开销等问题。尽管近期参数高效微调(PET)方法可缓解遗忘,但其效果高度依赖参数选择与更新策略。本文提出 PIECE——基于参数重要性估计的持续增强方法,可在不访问先前训练数据或增加模型参数的前提下,有效保留通用能力并高效学习领域知识。PIECE 仅选择 0.1% 最相关的核心参数进行更新,由两个重要性评估器引导:基于 Fisher 信息的 PIECE-F,以及结合梯度与曲率信息的二阶归一化方法 PIECE-S。在三个语言模型和两个多模态模型上的实验表明,PIECE 在多种下游任务中均保持了通用能力,并达到当前最优持续学习表现。结果揭示了一条无需灾难性遗忘即可实现可扩展、领域自适应基础模型的实用路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Domain-specific post-training often causes catastrophic forgetting, making foundation models lose their general reasoning ability and limiting their adaptability to dynamic real-world environments. Preserving general capabilities while acquiring downstream domain knowledge is a central challenge for large language and multimodal models. Traditional continual learning methods, such as regularization, replay and architectural isolation, suffer from poor downstream performance, reliance on inaccessible historical data, or additional parameter overhead. While recent parameter-efficient tuning (PET) methods can alleviate forgetting, their effectiveness strongly depends on the choice of parameters and update strategies. In this paper, we introduce PIECE, a Parameter Importance Estimation-based Continual Enhancement method that preserves general ability while efficiently learning domain knowledge without accessing prior training data or increasing model parameters. PIECE selectively updates only 0.1% of core parameters most relevant to new tasks, guided by two importance estimators: PIECE-F based on Fisher Information, and PIECE-S based on a second-order normalization that combines gradient and curvature information. Experiments across three language models and two multimodal models show that PIECE maintains general capabilities and achieves state-of-the-art continual learning performance across diverse downstream tasks. Our results highlight a practical path to scalable, domain-adaptive foundation models without catastrophic forgetting.

持续学习参数效率大模型

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