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Poster

Select and Distill: Selective Dual-Teacher Knowledge Transfer for Continual Learning on Vision-Language Models

Yu-Chu Yu · Chi-Pin Huang · Jr-Jen Chen · Kai-Po Chang · Yung-Hsuan Lai · Fu-En Yang · Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

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Wed 2 Oct 7:30 a.m. PDT — 9:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) have shown a strong zero-shot generalization capability on unseen-domain data. However, when adapting pre-trained VLMs to a sequence of downstream tasks, they are prone to forgetting previously learned knowledge and degrade their zero-shot classification capability. To tackle this problem, we propose a unique Selective Dual-Teacher Knowledge Transfer framework that leverages the most recent fine-tuned and the original pre-trained VLMs as dual teachers to preserve the previously learned knowledge and zero-shot capabilities, respectively. With only access to an unlabeled reference dataset, our proposed framework performs a selective knowledge distillation mechanism by measuring the feature discrepancy from the dual teacher VLMs. Consequently, our selective dual-teacher knowledge distillation would mitigate catastrophic forgetting of previously learned knowledge while preserving the zero-shot capabilities from pre-trained VLMs. Through extensive experiments on benchmark datasets, we show that our proposed framework is favorable against state-of-the-art continual learning approaches for preventing catastrophic forgetting and zero-shot degradation.

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