Move What Matters: Parameter-Efficient Domain Adaptation via Optimal Transport Flow for Collaborative Perception

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Main Authors: Jia, Zesheng, Wang, Jin, Liu, Siao, Li, Lingzhi, Huang, Ziyao, Xu, Yunjiang, Wang, Jianping
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author Jia, Zesheng
Wang, Jin
Liu, Siao
Li, Lingzhi
Huang, Ziyao
Xu, Yunjiang
Wang, Jianping
author_facet Jia, Zesheng
Wang, Jin
Liu, Siao
Li, Lingzhi
Huang, Ziyao
Xu, Yunjiang
Wang, Jianping
contents Fast domain adaptation remains a fundamental challenge for deploying multi-agent systems across diverse environments in Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) collaborative perception. Despite the success of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) in natural language processing and conventional vision tasks, directly applying PEFT to multi-agent settings leads to significant performance degradation and training instability. In this work, we conduct a detailed analysis and identify two key factors: (i) inter-frame redundancy in heterogeneous sensory streams, and (ii) erosion of fine-grained semantics in deep-layer representations under PEFT adaptation. To address these issues, we propose FlowAdapt, a parameter-efficient framework grounded in optimal transport theory, which minimizes information transport costs across both data distributions and network hierarchies. Specifically, we introduce a Wasserstein Greedy Sampling strategy to selectively filter redundant samples via a bounded covering radius. Furthermore, Progressive Knowledge Transfer module is designed to progressively inject compressed early-stage representations into later stages through learnable pathways, alleviating semantic degradation in late-stage adaptation. Extensive experiments on three benchmarks demonstrate that FlowAdapt achieves state-of-the-art performance with only 1% of trainable parameters, effectively bridging domain gaps with superior sample efficiency and generalization.
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spellingShingle Move What Matters: Parameter-Efficient Domain Adaptation via Optimal Transport Flow for Collaborative Perception
Jia, Zesheng
Wang, Jin
Liu, Siao
Li, Lingzhi
Huang, Ziyao
Xu, Yunjiang
Wang, Jianping
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Fast domain adaptation remains a fundamental challenge for deploying multi-agent systems across diverse environments in Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) collaborative perception. Despite the success of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) in natural language processing and conventional vision tasks, directly applying PEFT to multi-agent settings leads to significant performance degradation and training instability. In this work, we conduct a detailed analysis and identify two key factors: (i) inter-frame redundancy in heterogeneous sensory streams, and (ii) erosion of fine-grained semantics in deep-layer representations under PEFT adaptation. To address these issues, we propose FlowAdapt, a parameter-efficient framework grounded in optimal transport theory, which minimizes information transport costs across both data distributions and network hierarchies. Specifically, we introduce a Wasserstein Greedy Sampling strategy to selectively filter redundant samples via a bounded covering radius. Furthermore, Progressive Knowledge Transfer module is designed to progressively inject compressed early-stage representations into later stages through learnable pathways, alleviating semantic degradation in late-stage adaptation. Extensive experiments on three benchmarks demonstrate that FlowAdapt achieves state-of-the-art performance with only 1% of trainable parameters, effectively bridging domain gaps with superior sample efficiency and generalization.
title Move What Matters: Parameter-Efficient Domain Adaptation via Optimal Transport Flow for Collaborative Perception
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11565