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The scaling law of Large Language Models (LLMs) reveals a power-law relationship, showing diminishing return on performance as model scale increases. While training LLMs from scratch is resource-intensive, fine-tuning a pre-trained model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yiyun Zhou , Chang Yao , Jingyuan Chen

The pretrain+fine-tune paradigm is foundational for deploying large language models (LLMs) across various downstream applications. Within this framework, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) stands out for its parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jingwei Xu , Junyu Lai , Yunpeng Huang

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) have focused primarily on scaling by increasing text-image pair data and enhancing LLMs to improve performance on multimodal tasks. However, these scaling approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Jiachen Li , Xinyao Wang , Sijie Zhu , Chia-Wen Kuo , Lu Xu , Fan Chen , Jitesh Jain , Humphrey Shi , Longyin Wen

Personalized object detection aims to adapt a general-purpose detector to recognize user-specific instances from only a few examples. Lightweight models often struggle in this setting due to their weak semantic priors, while large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Elena Camuffo , Francesco Barbato , Mete Ozay , Simone Milani , Umberto Michieli

Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning (MCIT) aims to finetune Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to continually align with human intent across sequential tasks. Existing approaches often rely on the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LoRA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Duzhen Zhang , Yong Ren , Zhong-Zhi Li , Yahan Yu , Jiahua Dong , Chenxing Li , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a widely used method for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large-scale, pre-trained neural networks. However, LoRA and its extensions face several challenges, including the need for rank adaptivity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Steffen Schotthöfer , Emanuele Zangrando , Gianluca Ceruti , Francesco Tudisco , Jonas Kusch

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has been widely employed for domain adaptation, with LoRA being one of the most prominent methods due to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, in multi-task learning (MTL) scenarios, LoRA tends to…

Low-resource languages, by its very definition, tend to be under represented in the pre-training corpora of Large Language Models. In this work, we investigate three low-resource cross-lingual approaches that enable an LLM adapt to tasks in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Vaibhav Singh , Amrith Krishna , Karthika NJ , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Low-rank adaptation, also known as LoRA, has emerged as a prominent method for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of foundation models. Despite its computational efficiency, LoRA still yields inferior performance compared to full fine-tuning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhengbo Wang , Jian Liang , Ran He , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a widely-used parameter-efficient finetuning method for large language models. LoRA saves memory by training only low rank perturbations to selected weight matrices. In this work, we compare the performance of…

Modern multimodal large language models (MLLMs) adopt a unified self-attention design that processes visual and textual tokens at every Transformer layer, incurring substantial computational overhead. In this work, we revisit the necessity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Wenjie Liu , Hao Wu , Xin Qiu , Xudong Wang , Yingqi Fan , Yihan Zhang , Anhao Zhao , Yunpu Ma , Xiaoyu Shen

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant progress in perceiving and reasoning over multimodal inquiries, ushering in a new research era for foundation models. However, vision-language misalignment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Wei-Yao Wang , Zhao Wang , Helen Suzuki , Yoshiyuki Kobayashi

Recent advancements indicate that scaling up Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) effectively enhances performance on downstream multimodal tasks. The prevailing MLLM paradigm, \emph{e.g.}, LLaVA, transforms visual features into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Wenqiao Zhang , Tianwei Lin , Jiang Liu , Fangxun Shu , Haoyuan Li , Lei Zhang , He Wanggui , Hao Zhou , Zheqi Lv , Hao Jiang , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Multimodal deep learning systems which employ multiple modalities like text, image, audio, video, etc., are showing better performance in comparison with individual modalities (i.e., unimodal) systems. Multimodal machine learning involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Anil Rahate , Rahee Walambe , Sheela Ramanna , Ketan Kotecha

Multimodal Machine Translation (MMT) enhances translation quality by incorporating visual context, helping to resolve textual ambiguities. While existing MMT methods perform well in bilingual settings, extending them to multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jingxuan Wei , Caijun Jia , Qi Chen , Yujun Cai , Linzhuang Sun , Xiangxiang Zhang , Gaowei Wu , Bihui Yu

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a standard tool for parameter-efficient finetuning of large models. While it induces a small memory footprint, its training dynamics can be surprisingly complex as they depend on several hyperparameters such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Nan Chen , Soledad Villar , Soufiane Hayou

Foundation models for vision have transformed visual recognition with powerful pretrained representations and strong zero-shot capabilities, yet their potential for data-efficient learning remains largely untapped. Active Learning (AL) aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Huy Hoang Nguyen , Cédric Jung , Shirin Salehi , Tobias Glück , Anke Schmeink , Andreas Kugi

Training a unified model to take multiple targets into account is a trend towards artificial general intelligence. However, how to efficiently mitigate the training conflicts among heterogeneous data collected from different domains or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yuhang Zhou , Zihua Zhao , Haolin Li , Siyuan Du , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Continual multimodal instruction tuning is crucial for adapting Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to evolving tasks. However, most existing methods adopt a fixed architecture, struggling with adapting to new tasks due to static model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Chendi Ge , Xin Wang , Zeyang Zhang , Hong Chen , Jiapei Fan , Longtao Huang , Hui Xue , Wenwu Zhu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have showcased impressive skills in tasks related to visual understanding and reasoning. Yet, their widespread application faces obstacles due to the high computational demands during both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Minjie Zhu , Yichen Zhu , Xin Liu , Ning Liu , Zhiyuan Xu , Chaomin Shen , Yaxin Peng , Zhicai Ou , Feifei Feng , Jian Tang