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New tuning methods teach LMMs skills without forgetting

Researchers have developed novel methods for fine-tuning large multimodal models (LMMs) to acquire new skills without degrading existing capabilities. By analyzing the output token distribution and identifying a 'counting bias,' they discovered that selectively updating only the self-attention projection layers or the MLP Gate&Up components significantly reduces performance loss on previously learned tasks. These selective tuning approaches, demonstrated across LLaVA-OneVision, LLaVA-NeXT, and Qwen2.5-VL models, outperform traditional full-model fine-tuning and other forgetting mitigation techniques like LwF, LoRA, and WiSE-FT in terms of the learning-stability trade-off. AI

IMPACT Offers more efficient and stable methods for adapting large multimodal models to new tasks without compromising existing knowledge.

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New tuning methods teach LMMs skills without forgetting

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhen Zhu, Yiming Gong, Yao Xiao, Yaoyao Liu, Derek Hoiem ·

    How to Teach Large Multimodal Models New Skills

    arXiv:2510.08564v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: How can we teach large multimodal models (LMMs) new skills without erasing prior abilities? We study sequential fine-tuning on five target skills while monitoring general ability on eight held-out benchmarks across three m…