DIMoE-Adapters: Dynamic Expert Evolution for Continual Learning in Vision-Language Models

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Autori principali: Qin, Mengxin, Zhang, Xiang, Wang, Xi, Wei, Kun, Yang, Xu, Deng, Cheng
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author Qin, Mengxin
Zhang, Xiang
Wang, Xi
Wei, Kun
Yang, Xu
Deng, Cheng
author_facet Qin, Mengxin
Zhang, Xiang
Wang, Xi
Wei, Kun
Yang, Xu
Deng, Cheng
contents Continual learning enables vision-language models to accumulate knowledge and adapt to evolving tasks without retraining from scratch. However, in multi-domain task-incremental learning, large domain shifts intensify the stability-plasticity dilemma. Most existing methods rely on fixed architectures with statically allocated parameters, which limits adaptation to new domains and aggravates catastrophic forgetting. To address these challenges, we propose DIMoE-Adapters, a Dynamic Incremental Mixture-of-Experts Adapters framework that introduces a dynamic expert evolution paradigm to balance stability and plasticity. This paradigm is implemented through two collaborative components: Self-Calibrated Expert Evolution (SCEE) and Prototype-Guided Expert Selection (PGES). SCEE constructs and evolves a sparse expert pool through expert optimization dynamics, improving plasticity while reducing redundant capacity. PGES controls expert utilization based on the pool shaped by SCEE, improving stability across both previously encountered and unseen tasks. Extensive experiments show that DIMoE-Adapters outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods across various settings.
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spellingShingle DIMoE-Adapters: Dynamic Expert Evolution for Continual Learning in Vision-Language Models
Qin, Mengxin
Zhang, Xiang
Wang, Xi
Wei, Kun
Yang, Xu
Deng, Cheng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Continual learning enables vision-language models to accumulate knowledge and adapt to evolving tasks without retraining from scratch. However, in multi-domain task-incremental learning, large domain shifts intensify the stability-plasticity dilemma. Most existing methods rely on fixed architectures with statically allocated parameters, which limits adaptation to new domains and aggravates catastrophic forgetting. To address these challenges, we propose DIMoE-Adapters, a Dynamic Incremental Mixture-of-Experts Adapters framework that introduces a dynamic expert evolution paradigm to balance stability and plasticity. This paradigm is implemented through two collaborative components: Self-Calibrated Expert Evolution (SCEE) and Prototype-Guided Expert Selection (PGES). SCEE constructs and evolves a sparse expert pool through expert optimization dynamics, improving plasticity while reducing redundant capacity. PGES controls expert utilization based on the pool shaped by SCEE, improving stability across both previously encountered and unseen tasks. Extensive experiments show that DIMoE-Adapters outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods across various settings.
title DIMoE-Adapters: Dynamic Expert Evolution for Continual Learning in Vision-Language Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07494