提出流式持续视觉指令微调框架,让多模态大模型实时学习动态任务。
StrLoRA: Towards Streaming Continual Visual Instruction Tuning for MLLMs

- 基于文本指令选择专家,减少跨任务干扰。
- 通过跨模态注意力计算令牌级权重,提升适应性。
- 引入路由稳定性正则,防止遗忘,适合真实数据流场景。
持续视觉指令微调(CVIT)使多模态大语言模型能够增量式地获得新能力。然而,现有方法受限于任务增量设置,每个训练阶段仅对应单一预定义任务,无法反映真实世界中数据以交错、动态演变的任务流形式持续到来的情况。为此,我们提出流式持续视觉指令微调(StrCVIT),一种更通用且更贴近现实的设置:模型从包含动态混合任务的数据块流中学习。在该设定下,模型需同时获取新能力、强化重复能力并缓解遗忘。现有方法在此失效,因无法可靠区分或适应每块中的异质任务样本。因此,我们提出StrLoRA,一种正则化的两阶段专家路由框架:首先利用文本指令激活相关专家子集,降低跨任务干扰;随后在该子集中进行令牌级专家加权,权重由局部视觉令牌与全局指令表示间的跨模态注意力计算得出。为保持非平稳数据流中的稳定性,引入路由稳定性正则,使当前路由分布与历史指数移动平均参考对齐。在新构建的StrCVIT基准上的大量实验表明,StrLoRA显著优于现有方法,能有效从连续演化的数据流中增强模型能力。代码已开源:https://github.com/chanceche/StrCVIT。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Continual Visual Instruction Tuning (CVIT) enables Multimodal Large Language Models to incrementally acquire new abilities. However, existing CVIT methods operate under a restrictive task-incremental setting, where each training phase corresponds to a single, predefined task. This does not reflect real-world conditions, where data arrives as a continuous stream of interleaved and dynamically evolving tasks. To bridge this gap, we introduce Streaming CVIT (StrCVIT), a more general and realistic setting where models learn from a stream of data chunks containing a dynamic mixture of tasks. In StrCVIT, a model must simultaneously acquire new abilities, reinforce recurring abilities, and mitigate forgetting. Existing CVIT methods fail here as they cannot reliably distinguish or adapt to the heterogeneous task samples within each chunk. We therefore propose StrLoRA, a regularized two-stage expert routing framework. StrLoRA first performs task-aware expert selection using the textual instruction to activate a sparse subset of relevant experts, reducing cross-task interference. It then applies token-wise expert weighting within this subset, where contribution weights are computed via cross-modal attention between local visual tokens and the global instruction representation. To maintain stability across the non-stationary stream, a routing-stability regularization aligns current routing distributions with a historical exponential moving average reference. Extensive experiments on a newly developed StrCVIT benchmark show that StrLoRA substantially outperforms existing methods, effectively enhancing model's abilities from continuously evolving data streams. The code is available at https://github.com/chanceche/StrCVIT.
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