让多模态大模型在固定内存下持续学习,不改主干模型
InduceKV: Fixed-Footprint Continual Adaptation of Multimodal LLMs via Inducing KV Memories

- 用检索式记忆块存储训练片段,实现外部化任务适配
- 在有限内存下,比现有方法在多个任务上表现更优
- 适合资源受限场景下的长期多模态模型更新
多模态大模型需适应不断变化的任务与领域,但受限于部署内存时,持续优化仍具挑战——重复参数更新或增长的回放存储会积累适应状态。本文研究固定足迹持续适应:保持部署状态在固定内存预算内,主干模型不变,任务特定更新外部化。提出InduceKV,一种基于检索的方法,将每个选中的训练前缀作为就绪注意力的记忆条目,包含冻结的检索键和紧凑的分层键值(KV)载荷,可直接追加至模型自注意力缓存。在严格内存限制下,InduceKV通过双层选择构建紧凑诱导集:轻量校准用于检索,所选记忆在当前任务似然、锚点保留和冻结检索空间覆盖间取得平衡。在任务增量指令微调、持续性视觉问答、领域增量适配及终身多模态指令微调中,InduceKV在相同内存预算下均优于PEFT、MoE、回放和提示检索基线。进一步报告了主干匹配、阶段1 CoIN、计算匹配及可扩展性诊断,表明性能提升并非源于更强主干、单纯回放或无限候选池。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multimodal large language models must adapt to evolving tasks and domains, yet continual improvement under bounded deployment footprint remains difficult because repeated parameter updates or growing replay stores can accumulate adaptation state over time. We study fixed-footprint continual adaptation: the deployed adaptation state is kept under a fixed memory budget, while the backbone model is left unchanged and task-specific updates are externalized. We propose InduceKV, a retrieval-based method that stores each selected training prefix as an attention-ready memory entry, consisting of a frozen retrieval key and compact layerwise key--value (KV) payloads that can be appended to the model's self-attention cache. Under a strict memory budget, InduceKV constructs a compact inducing set through bilevel selection: a lightweight calibration is fit for retrieval, while the selected memory balances current-task likelihood, anchor-based retention, and coverage in the frozen retrieval space. Across task-incremental instruction tuning, continual VQA, domain-incremental adaptation, and lifelong multimodal instruction tuning, InduceKV consistently improves over PEFT, MoE, replay, and prompt-retrieval baselines under matched memory budgets. We further report backbone-matched, stage-1 CoIN, compute-matched, and scalability diagnostics, showing that the gains are not due to a stronger backbone, replay alone, or an unbounded candidate pool.
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