通过保护视觉语言模型的语义几何结构,缓解持续学习中的灾难性遗忘。
Continual Learning with Vision-Language Models via Semantic-Geometry Preservation
- 利用对抗锚点定位易遗忘的语义交界区域,引导新任务学习。
- 在五个基准上实现最佳稳定性与前向迁移性能,显著减少语义扭曲。
- 适合研究视觉语言模型持续学习、避免遗忘的开发者使用。
预训练视觉语言模型(VLM)在持续学习中易发生灾难性遗忘,现有方法未显式保留预训练及前期阶段的跨模态语义几何结构,导致新任务监督引发几何失真。我们发现最显著的语义漂移集中于旧-新语义界面附近的脆弱邻域,共享视觉模式易被新文本语义重新解释。为在无样本存储约束下解决该问题,提出语义几何保持持续学习方法(SeGP-CL)。SeGP-CL首先通过双目标投影梯度下降构建紧凑对抗锚点集,将新任务种子推向旧类别语义,同时保持原始视觉空间一致性。训练中,采用锚点引导的跨模态几何蒸馏(ACGD)维持跨模态结构,并通过轻量级文本语义-几何正则化(TSGR)稳定文本参考框架。推理阶段,估计锚点引起的原始空间漂移以迁移旧视觉原型,并融合跨模态与视觉线索进行双路径推理。在五个持续学习基准上的实验表明,SeGP-CL持续提升稳定性和前向迁移能力,达到当前最优性能,更好保留VLM的语义几何结构。代码已开源:https://github.com/chiyuan-IVIPLab/SeGP-CL。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Continual learning of pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) is prone to catastrophic forgetting, yet current approaches adapt to new tasks without explicitly preserving the cross-modal semantic geometry inherited from pretraining and previous stages, allowing new-task supervision to induce geometric distortion. We observe that the most pronounced drift tends to concentrate in vulnerable neighborhoods near the old-new semantic interface, where shared visual patterns are easily re-explained by new textual semantics. To address this under an exemplar-free constraint, we propose Semantic Geometry Preservation for Continual Learning (SeGP-CL). SeGP-CL first probes the drift-prone region by constructing a compact set of adversarial anchors with dual-targeted projected gradient descent (DPGD), which drives selected new-task seeds toward old-class semantics while remaining faithful in raw visual space. During training, we preserve cross-modal structure by anchor-guided cross-modal geometry distillation (ACGD), and stabilize the textual reference frame across tasks via a lightweight text semantic-geometry regularization (TSGR). After training, we estimate anchor-induced raw-space drift to transfer old visual prototypes and perform dual-path inference by fusing cross-modal and visual cues. Extensive experiments on five continual learning benchmarks demonstrate that SeGP-CL consistently improves stability and forward transfer, achieving state-of-the-art performance while better preserving semantic geometry of VLMs. Code is available at: https://github.com/chiyuan-IVIPLab/SeGP-CL.
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