Parameter-Efficient Multi-Task Learning via Progressive Task-Specific Adaptation

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Hauptverfasser: Gangwar, Neeraj, Rangi, Anshuka, Deshmukh, Rishabh, Rahmanian, Holakou, Dattatreya, Yesh, Kani, Nickvash
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Gangwar, Neeraj
Rangi, Anshuka
Deshmukh, Rishabh
Rahmanian, Holakou
Dattatreya, Yesh
Kani, Nickvash
author_facet Gangwar, Neeraj
Rangi, Anshuka
Deshmukh, Rishabh
Rahmanian, Holakou
Dattatreya, Yesh
Kani, Nickvash
contents Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods have emerged as a promising solution for adapting pre-trained models to various downstream tasks. While these methods perform well in single-task learning, extending them to multi-task learning exacerbates common issues, such as task interference and negative transfer, due to the limited number of trainable parameters. To address these challenges, we introduce progressive task-specific multi-task adaptation, a novel parameter-efficient approach for multi-task learning. Our approach introduces adapter modules that are shared in early layers and become increasingly task-specific in later layers. Additionally, we propose a gradient-based approach for computing task similarity and use this measure to allocate similar tasks to the shared adapter modules. To evaluate our approach, we adapt Swin and Pyramid Vision Transformers on PASCAL and NYUD-v2. On both datasets, our approach outperforms prior parameter-efficient multi-task methods while using fewer trainable parameters.
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spellingShingle Parameter-Efficient Multi-Task Learning via Progressive Task-Specific Adaptation
Gangwar, Neeraj
Rangi, Anshuka
Deshmukh, Rishabh
Rahmanian, Holakou
Dattatreya, Yesh
Kani, Nickvash
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods have emerged as a promising solution for adapting pre-trained models to various downstream tasks. While these methods perform well in single-task learning, extending them to multi-task learning exacerbates common issues, such as task interference and negative transfer, due to the limited number of trainable parameters. To address these challenges, we introduce progressive task-specific multi-task adaptation, a novel parameter-efficient approach for multi-task learning. Our approach introduces adapter modules that are shared in early layers and become increasingly task-specific in later layers. Additionally, we propose a gradient-based approach for computing task similarity and use this measure to allocate similar tasks to the shared adapter modules. To evaluate our approach, we adapt Swin and Pyramid Vision Transformers on PASCAL and NYUD-v2. On both datasets, our approach outperforms prior parameter-efficient multi-task methods while using fewer trainable parameters.
title Parameter-Efficient Multi-Task Learning via Progressive Task-Specific Adaptation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19602