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Main Authors: Yan, Weicai, Ma, Xinhua, Lin, Wang, Jin, Tao
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08181
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author Yan, Weicai
Ma, Xinhua
Lin, Wang
Jin, Tao
author_facet Yan, Weicai
Ma, Xinhua
Lin, Wang
Jin, Tao
contents Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods introduce a small number of training parameters, enabling pre-trained models to adapt rapidly to new data distributions. While these methods have shown promising results, they exhibit notable limitations. First, most existing methods operate in the signal space domain, which results in substantial information redundancy. Second, most existing methods utilize fixed prompts or adaptation layers, failing to fully account for the multi-scale characteristics of signals. To address these challenges, we propose the Multi-Scale Frequency Adapter (FreqAdapter), which integrates textual information and performs multi-scale fine-tuning of signals in the frequency domain. Additionally, we introduce a multi-scale adaptation strategy to optimize receptive fields across different frequency ranges, further enhancing the model's representational capacity. Extensive experiments on multimodal models, including CLIP and LLaVA, demonstrate that FreqAdapter significantly improves both performance and efficiency. FreqAdapter improves performance with minimal cost and fast convergence within one epoch. Code is available at https://github.com/Kelvin-ywc/FreqAdapter.
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spellingShingle Text-Guided Multi-Scale Frequency Representation Adaptation
Yan, Weicai
Ma, Xinhua
Lin, Wang
Jin, Tao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods introduce a small number of training parameters, enabling pre-trained models to adapt rapidly to new data distributions. While these methods have shown promising results, they exhibit notable limitations. First, most existing methods operate in the signal space domain, which results in substantial information redundancy. Second, most existing methods utilize fixed prompts or adaptation layers, failing to fully account for the multi-scale characteristics of signals. To address these challenges, we propose the Multi-Scale Frequency Adapter (FreqAdapter), which integrates textual information and performs multi-scale fine-tuning of signals in the frequency domain. Additionally, we introduce a multi-scale adaptation strategy to optimize receptive fields across different frequency ranges, further enhancing the model's representational capacity. Extensive experiments on multimodal models, including CLIP and LLaVA, demonstrate that FreqAdapter significantly improves both performance and efficiency. FreqAdapter improves performance with minimal cost and fast convergence within one epoch. Code is available at https://github.com/Kelvin-ywc/FreqAdapter.
title Text-Guided Multi-Scale Frequency Representation Adaptation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08181