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DiTASK: Multi-Task Fine-Tuning with Diffeomorphic Transformations

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-06-03 v3

Abstract

Pre-trained Vision Transformers now serve as powerful tools for computer vision. Yet, efficiently adapting them for multiple tasks remains a challenge that arises from the need to modify the rich hidden representations encoded by the learned weight matrices, without inducing interference between tasks. Current parameter-efficient methods like LoRA, which apply low-rank updates, force tasks to compete within constrained subspaces, ultimately degrading performance. We introduce DiTASK a novel Diffeomorphic Multi-Task Fine-Tuning approach that maintains pre-trained representations by preserving weight matrix singular vectors, while enabling task-specific adaptations through neural diffeomorphic transformations of the singular values. By following this approach, DiTASK enables both shared and task-specific feature modulations with minimal added parameters. Our theoretical analysis shows that DITASK achieves full-rank updates during optimization, preserving the geometric structure of pre-trained features, and establishing a new paradigm for efficient multi-task learning (MTL). Our experiments on PASCAL MTL and NYUD show that DiTASK achieves state-of-the-art performance across four dense prediction tasks, using 75% fewer parameters than existing methods. Our code is available [here](https://github.com/ipsitmantri/DiTASK).

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@article{arxiv.2502.06029,
  title  = {DiTASK: Multi-Task Fine-Tuning with Diffeomorphic Transformations},
  author = {Krishna Sri Ipsit Mantri and Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb and Bruno Ribeiro and Chaim Baskin and Moshe Eliasof},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.06029},
  year   = {2025}
}

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CVPR 2025, 14 pages

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