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Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning

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4arXiv · cs.CL·22d ago·source ↗

Prism: Plug-in Infrastructure for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning Research

Prism is an open-source codebase designed to address engineering bottlenecks in Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning (MCIT) research. It introduces a plugin registration mechanism that separates algorithmic development from backbone MLLM implementation, allowing new continual learning strategies to be integrated without modifying the underlying model codebase. This design aims to eliminate structural fragmentation across method-specific implementations and enable fair, reproducible comparisons at scale.

5arXiv · cs.LG·15d ago·source ↗

ProtoAda: Prototype-Guided Adaptive Adapter Expansion for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning

ProtoAda is a new framework for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning (MCIT) that addresses a key failure mode in sparse Mixture-of-LoRA-Experts architectures: image-text similarity routing is format-blind and incorrectly merges tasks with similar semantics but different output structures (e.g., coordinate prediction vs. VQA). The method introduces format-aware task prototypes to guide both routing and adapter expansion, then consolidates compatible updates geometrically to reuse and refine existing parameters. Experiments across multiple benchmarks show improved performance, particularly on tasks whose answer formats are vulnerable to corruption by sequential fine-tuning.

5arXiv · cs.CL·15d ago·source ↗

CRAM: Centroid-Routing and Adaptive MoE for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning

CRAM is a new method for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning (MCIT) that addresses the tension between catastrophic forgetting and parameter efficiency in MLLMs. It combines adaptive-rank instantiation to dynamically allocate parameters based on capability gaps, centroid-guided routing to reuse existing expert knowledge, and an orthogonality penalty to confine new updates to task-specific directions. The approach uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture where task-specific patterns are isolated into independent modules, avoiding both the interference of shared updates and the parameter bloat of fully isolated expansion. Experiments across diverse benchmarks show consistent improvements over existing MCIT methods.