arXiv:2608.21487cs.CVcs.AI2026-08

TASSO通过任务专属子空间优化,缓解视觉语言模型持续学习中的遗忘与零样本退化。

TASSO: TAsk-Specific Subspace Optimization for Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models

论文配图:TASSO: TAsk-Specific Subspace Optimization for Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models
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  • 设计任务专属低秩投影器,聚焦特定任务流形进行优化。
  • 采用测地距离损失保持隐空间几何结构,减少参数更新开销。
  • 显著降低灾难性遗忘和零样本性能下降,适合多领域持续学习场景。

视觉语言模型(VLMs)具备强大的零样本能力,是跨多样化任务持续学习的理想选择。然而,在持续适应过程中,灾难性遗忘和零样本退化严重损害性能。本文提出TASSO,一种新范式,高效保留隐空间几何结构的同时确保网络可塑性。通过两种互补技术实现:子空间学习与几何感知知识蒸馏。首先,学习一系列任务专属的低秩投影器,用于在优化交叉熵前投影隐表示;其次,采用基于测地距离的损失,从先前任务模型中蒸馏知识,有效保持隐空间几何结构。这些设计不仅避免了沿完整嵌入维度的非必要参数更新,还通过聚焦任务特定流形提升学习效率。此外,几何感知蒸馏提供强正则化,显著减少整个持续学习序列中的灾难性遗忘和零样本退化。在CLIP模型上,于多领域任务增量与类别增量学习基准上的实验结果表明,TASSO在缓解遗忘和保持零样本能力方面均优于现有最先进方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit strong zero-shot capabilities, making them an attractive solution for continual learning across diverse tasks. However, during continual adaptation, both catastrophic forgetting and zero-shot degradation occur, severely degrading performance. In this paper, we introduce TASSO, a new paradigm that efficiently preserves the latent space geometry while ensuring network plasticity. We achieve this with two complementary techniques: subspace learning and geometry-aware knowledge distillation. Specifically, we first learn a sequence of task-specific low-rank projectors, which we use to project the latent representations before optimizing cross-entropy. Secondly, we employ a geodesic-distance-based loss that distills knowledge from the previous-task model while effectively preserving the latent space geometry. These design choices not only avoid unnecessary parameter updates along the full embedding dimensions but also improve learning by focusing on task-specific manifolds. Moreover, the geometry-aware distillation provides strong regularization and significantly reduces both catastrophic forgetting and zero-shot degradation throughout the continual learning sequence. Experimental results with the CLIP vision language model in the multi-domain task incremental and class incremental learning benchmarks demonstrate clear improvements over state-of-the-art methods in mitigating forgetting and preserving zero-shot capabilities.

持续学习视觉语言模型子空间优化知识蒸馏

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