arXiv:2604.02338cs.LGcs.CL2026-04

轻量级专家路由让多模态多任务模型更高效,参数少4倍、训练快29%。

LiME: Lightweight Mixture of Experts for Efficient Multimodal Multi-task Learning

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  • 用轻量调制向量替代每个专家独立适配器,共享一个参数高效模块
  • 在47项多模态任务上性能不降,参数量减少最多4倍,训练速度提升29%
  • 无需学习路由参数,适合资源受限场景或需快速部署的多任务系统

MoE-PEFT方法将专家混合与参数高效微调结合用于多任务适应,但需为每个专家配置独立适配器,导致可训练参数随专家数量线性增长,限制其在适配器架构中的应用。本文提出轻量级专家混合(LiME),通过轻量调制实现专家专化,而非复制适配器。LiME仅使用单一共享的参数高效模块,以轻量专家向量调制其输出,显著降低专家参数量,并可兼容任意参数高效方法。特别地,LiME引入零参数路由,利用已冻结和适配的表示,避免每层学习路由参数。理论上证明:(i) 更多专家能保留更多任务相关信息;(ii) 调制近似全专家特异的参数高效微调,误差有界。LiME还集成n-gram窗口路由与基于置信度自适应选择专家(Auto Top-K)。在包含47个任务的多模态多任务基准MMT-47上,实验表明,LiME在保持竞争力或更优性能的同时,可减少最多4倍的可训练参数,训练速度提升高达29%。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

MoE-PEFT methods combine Mixture of Experts with parameter-efficient fine-tuning for multi-task adaptation, but require separate adapters per expert causing trainable parameters to scale linearly with expert count and limiting applicability to adapter-based architectures. We propose LiME (Lightweight Mixture of Experts), which achieves expert specialization through lightweight modulation rather than adapter replication. Instead of separate adapters, LiME uses a single shared PEFT module and modulates its output with lightweight expert vectors, reducing expert parameters while generalizing to any PEFT method. Notably, LiME introduces zero-parameter routing by leveraging existing frozen and adapted representations eliminating learned router parameters typically required per layer. Theoretically, we prove that (i) more experts preserve more task-relevant information and (ii) modulation approximates full expert-specific PEFT with bounded error. LiME further incorporates n-gram windowed routing and adaptive expert selection (Auto Top-K) based on routing confidence. Experiments on MMT-47, a multimodal multi-task benchmark with 47 tasks spanning text, image, and video, demonstrate that LiME achieves competitive or superior performance while using up to 4x fewer trainable parameters and up to 29% faster training compared to corresponding MoE-PEFT baselines.

多模态专家混合高效微调

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