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Main Authors: Jiang, Kai, Huang, Siqi, Chen, Xiangyu, Shao, Jiawei, Zhang, Hongyuan, Luo, Ping, Li, Xuelong
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18507
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author Jiang, Kai
Huang, Siqi
Chen, Xiangyu
Shao, Jiawei
Zhang, Hongyuan
Luo, Ping
Li, Xuelong
author_facet Jiang, Kai
Huang, Siqi
Chen, Xiangyu
Shao, Jiawei
Zhang, Hongyuan
Luo, Ping
Li, Xuelong
contents Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) deployed on devices must adapt to continuously changing visual scenarios such as variations in background and perspective, to effectively perform complex visual tasks. To investigate catastrophic forgetting under real-world scenario shifts, we construct a multimodal visual understanding dataset (MSVQA), covering four distinct scenarios and perspectives: high-altitude, underwater, low-altitude, and indoor environments. Furthermore, we propose UNIFIER (mUltimodal coNtInual learning with MLLMs From multi-scenarIo pERspectives), a continual learning (CL) framework designed to address visual discrepancies while learning different scenarios. Compared to existing CL methods, UNIFIER enables knowledge accumulation within the same scenario and mutual enhancement across different scenarios via Vision Representation Expansion (VRE) and Vision Consistency Constraint (VCC). Experimental results show that UNIFIER improves the last-step VQA scores by 2.70%~10.62% and the last-step F1 scores by 3.40%~7.69% compared to the state-of-the-art method, QUAD, in 20-step cross-scenario continual learning tasks. MSVQA dataset is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kaij00/MSVQA.
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spellingShingle Multimodal Continual Learning with MLLMs from Multi-scenario Perspectives
Jiang, Kai
Huang, Siqi
Chen, Xiangyu
Shao, Jiawei
Zhang, Hongyuan
Luo, Ping
Li, Xuelong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) deployed on devices must adapt to continuously changing visual scenarios such as variations in background and perspective, to effectively perform complex visual tasks. To investigate catastrophic forgetting under real-world scenario shifts, we construct a multimodal visual understanding dataset (MSVQA), covering four distinct scenarios and perspectives: high-altitude, underwater, low-altitude, and indoor environments. Furthermore, we propose UNIFIER (mUltimodal coNtInual learning with MLLMs From multi-scenarIo pERspectives), a continual learning (CL) framework designed to address visual discrepancies while learning different scenarios. Compared to existing CL methods, UNIFIER enables knowledge accumulation within the same scenario and mutual enhancement across different scenarios via Vision Representation Expansion (VRE) and Vision Consistency Constraint (VCC). Experimental results show that UNIFIER improves the last-step VQA scores by 2.70%~10.62% and the last-step F1 scores by 3.40%~7.69% compared to the state-of-the-art method, QUAD, in 20-step cross-scenario continual learning tasks. MSVQA dataset is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kaij00/MSVQA.
title Multimodal Continual Learning with MLLMs from Multi-scenario Perspectives
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18507