提出CP-MoE框架,解决大模型持续学习中的遗忘问题。
CP-MoE: Consistency-Preserving Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Learning

- 用临时专家捕获新任务更新,引导其融入稳定专家
- 在SuperNI上超越现有方法,零样本迁移能力更强
- 适合需要长期学习且避免遗忘的多模态应用
灾难性遗忘仍是大语言模型(LLMs)和视觉-语言模型(VLMs)持续学习的主要障碍。尽管混合专家(MoE)架构提供了高效扩展路径,但基于LoRA的现有MoE持续学习方法仍面临根本权衡:要么过度隔离专家,限制跨任务知识迁移;要么允许特定任务更新覆盖关键参数,导致严重遗忘。为此,我们提出CP-MoE,一个以瞬时专家为核心的持续学习框架。该框架通过一致性保持路由偏置,利用瞬时专家估计与稳定专家的表征相似性,引导路由选择更兼容的专家;并通过瞬时专家引导的正则化机制,有选择地保护合并过程中的重要历史参数。两者协同减少参数干扰与遗忘,同时保持跨任务知识迁移。我们在基于LLM和VLM的单模态与多模态持续学习基准上验证了该方法。在涵盖多种顺序语言任务的SuperNI基准上,CP-MoE达到当前最优性能,并展现出更强的零样本迁移能力。在VQA v2数据集上,它在多模态视觉推理中实现有效扩展,持续降低遗忘率,并优于多个强基线方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Catastrophic forgetting remains a major obstacle to continual learning in large language models (LLMs) and vision--language models (VLMs). Although Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures offer an efficient path to scaling, existing LoRA-based MoE continual learning methods still face a fundamental trade-off: they either isolate experts too aggressively, limiting knowledge transfer across tasks, or allow task-specific updates to overwrite important existing parameters, leading to severe forgetting. To address this, we propose CP-MoE, a continual learning framework built around a transient expert that captures early task-specific updates and guides their integration into stable experts. CP-MoE introduces a consistency-preserving routing bias, which uses the transient expert to estimate representation similarity with stable experts and steer routing towards more compatible expert selection, and a transient expert-guided regularisation mechanism, which selectively protects important historical parameters during merging. Together, these components reduce parameter interference and forgetting while preserving cross-task knowledge transfer. We validate CP-MoE on both unimodal and multimodal continual learning benchmarks with LLM-based and VLM-based MoE models. On SuperNI benchmark, spanning diverse sequential language tasks, CP-MoE achieves state-of-the-art performance and stronger zero-shot transfer to unseen tasks. On VQA v2 dataset, it scales effectively to multimodal visual reasoning, consistently reduces forgetting, and outperforms strong MoE baselines.
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