arXiv:2601.20232cs.CV2026-01中稿 · ICLR被引 3

解决视觉提示调优训练不稳问题,提升收敛速度与准确率。

Visual Prompt-Agnostic Evolution

  • 从频域视角初始化提示,利用骨干网络的频率捷径模式。
  • 用共享科普曼算子实现跨层协同演化,减少梯度振荡。
  • 无需修改主干模型,兼容多种提示调优方法,轻量高效。

视觉提示调优(VPT)通过在每层输入序列中插入少量可学习提示标记来适配冻结的视觉变换器(ViT)至下游任务。然而,现有方法常因训练动态不稳,表现为梯度振荡:浅层提示早期停滞,深层提示高方差振荡,导致跨层不匹配,延缓收敛并降低性能。为此,我们提出提示无关演化(PAE),显式建模提示演化过程。从频域出发,通过挖掘并传播骨干网络固有的频率捷径模式,以任务感知方向初始化提示。为确保层间协同演化,采用共享科普曼算子施加全局线性变换,替代独立层更新。同时,借鉴李雅普诺夫稳定性理论,引入正则项约束演化过程中的误差放大。大量实验表明,PAE 在25个数据集上平均提速1.41倍,准确率提升1-3%。此外,PAE 具有提示无关性、轻量化特点,可无缝集成至多种VPT变体,无需修改主干或推理时调整。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) adapts a frozen Vision Transformer (ViT) to downstream tasks by inserting a small number of learnable prompt tokens into the token sequence at each layer. However, we observe that existing VPT variants often suffer from unstable training dynamics, characterized by gradient oscillations. A layer-wise analysis reveals that shallow-layer prompts tend to stagnate early, while deeper-layer prompts exhibit high-variance oscillations, leading to cross-layer mismatch. These issues slow convergence and degrade final performance. To address these challenges, we propose Prompt-Agnostic Evolution ($\mathtt{PAE}$), which strengthens vision prompt tuning by explicitly modeling prompt dynamics. From a frequency-domain perspective, we initialize prompts in a task-aware direction by uncovering and propagating frequency shortcut patterns that the backbone inherently exploits for recognition. To ensure coherent evolution across layers, we employ a shared Koopman operator that imposes a global linear transformation instead of uncoordinated, layer-specific updates. Finally, inspired by Lyapunov stability theory, we introduce a regularizer that constrains error amplification during evolution. Extensive experiments show that $\mathtt{PAE}$ accelerates convergence with an average $1.41\times$ speedup and improves accuracy by 1-3% on 25 datasets across multiple downstream tasks. Beyond performance, $\mathtt{PAE}$ is prompt-agnostic and lightweight, and it integrates seamlessly with diverse VPT variants without backbone modification or inference-time changes.

视觉提示稳定训练演化建模

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