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arxiv: 2606.02502 · v1 · pith:7CVI5SP3new · submitted 2026-06-01 · 💻 cs.CL

CRAM: Centroid-Routing and Adaptive MoE for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning

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keywords continual learningmultimodal instruction tuningmixture of expertscatastrophic forgettingadaptive routingparameter efficiencycentroid routingorthogonality penalty
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CRAM uses centroid-guided routing and adaptive MoE to enable parameter-efficient continual instruction tuning in multimodal models without catastrophic forgetting.

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Multimodal large language models face a dilemma in continual learning: sharing parameters across tasks causes forgetting of old capabilities, while dedicating separate modules for each task wastes parameters over many tasks. The paper proposes CRAM to resolve this by isolating task-specific patterns in independent modules and using adaptive-rank instantiation to add only the parameters needed to bridge capability gaps. Centroid-guided routing reuses existing experts for new tasks, and an orthogonality penalty ensures new updates stay task-specific. This setup is tested on diverse benchmarks where it outperforms prior methods. Readers care because it points toward scalable, long-term deployment of models that can keep acquiring new vision-language skills.

Core claim

By isolating task-specific patterns into independent modules, CRAM mitigates catastrophic forgetting across tasks. Adaptive-rank instantiation identifies the capability gap between existing expert capability and new task demands, dynamically allocating only the necessary parameters. Centroid-guided routing recognizes and activates existing experts' capabilities for stable reuse, while an orthogonality penalty confines new updates to task-specific directions, preventing re-learning general capability. Extensive experiments across diverse benchmarks consistently demonstrate its superiority over existing methods.

What carries the argument

Centroid-guided routing in an adaptive Mixture-of-Experts architecture with rank-based parameter allocation and orthogonality penalty.

If this is right

  • Models maintain performance on previous tasks while incorporating new ones over extended sequences.
  • Total parameters scale sublinearly with the number of tasks based on measured capability gaps.
  • Routing decisions allow reuse of prior experts without retraining them for new tasks.
  • Updates remain localized, preserving general multimodal capabilities learned earlier.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Deployment of such models in real-world settings could lower the frequency of full retraining cycles.
  • Similar mechanisms might help in other continual learning domains like robotics or pure language tasks.
  • The method implies that quantifying capability gaps at addition time can optimize resource use in expanding AI systems.

Load-bearing premise

Adaptive-rank instantiation can reliably identify the capability gap between existing experts and new task demands without requiring post-hoc tuning that affects the reported gains.

What would settle it

If experiments on extended task sequences show that CRAM either exhibits significant forgetting comparable to shared-parameter baselines or requires parameter counts similar to full per-task modules, the efficiency and stability claims would not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.02502 by Da-Wei Zhou, Jun-Tao Tang, Yu-Cheng Shi, Zhen-Hao Xie.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Format-level interference. (a) Accuracy change relative to zero-shot for each train-test format￾pair. (b) Ratio of format wrong but semantically correct responses among errors. 2 4 10 20 30 40 Training progress (/k samples) 40 45 50 55 60 Score on Flickr30k (%) Zero-shot 41.44 Flickr30k-only 57.51 General visual capability reuse (+10.0) Task-specific visual knowledge gap (-6.1) During VizWiz training [PIT… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Transfer on Flickr30k during VizWiz training. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of CRAM. CRAM decouples via (i) Semantic Group Routing that group instructions with semantic similarity to protect output conventions, (ii) Adaptive-Rank Instantiation that allocates parameters exclusively to capability gaps via orthogonality filtering, and (iii) Centroid-Guided Orthogonal Learning to stabilize expert activation while confining new updates to orthogonal subspaces. projector π(·), … view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Visualization of instruction embeddings on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Adaptive rank allocation analysis. (a) Rank [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Parameter comparison on TriGap [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Overlap between ∆W and a historical expert before and after orthogonality filtering. Each column of ∆W is colored by its projection ratio onto the column space of a reference historical expert. transfer. This confirms that while the model is gen￾uinely acquiring instruction-following capabilities, its output behavior remains highly sensitive to sur￾face format conventions. Rigid syntactic templates are thu… view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Training time comparison between Baseline [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_9.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) unify heterogeneous vision-language tasks under a shared generative framework via instruction tuning, yet real-world deployment demands continuous capability expansion, making Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning (MCIT) essential. Existing methods either update all tasks with a shared parameter set or allocate dedicated modules for each new task. Shared updates force heterogeneous tasks to compete, causing forgetting of learned capabilities. Conversely, isolated expansion prevents interference but severely limits parameter efficiency over long task streams. To address this dilemma, we propose CRAM. Specifically, by isolating task-specific patterns into independent modules, CRAM mitigates catastrophic forgetting across tasks. To further boost parameter efficiency, we utilize adaptive-rank instantiation to identify the capability gap between existing expert capability and new task demands, and dynamically allocate only the necessary parameters. To ensure stable reuse among tasks, centroid-guided routing recognizes and activates existing experts' capabilities, while an orthogonality penalty confines new updates to task-specific directions, preventing re-learning general capability. Extensive experiments across diverse benchmarks consistently demonstrate its superiority over existing methods.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes CRAM, a Centroid-Routing and Adaptive MoE framework for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning (MCIT). It isolates task-specific patterns into independent modules to mitigate catastrophic forgetting, employs adaptive-rank instantiation to quantify capability gaps between existing experts and new tasks for dynamic parameter allocation, uses centroid-guided routing for stable expert reuse, and applies an orthogonality penalty to confine updates to task-specific directions. The central claim is that this approach achieves superior performance and parameter efficiency over existing shared-update and isolated-module baselines across diverse benchmarks.

Significance. If the superiority and efficiency claims hold under rigorous verification, CRAM would represent a meaningful contribution to continual learning in MLLMs by addressing the shared-vs-isolated parameter trade-off through a combination of routing and adaptive allocation mechanisms.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2 (Adaptive-Rank Instantiation): The procedure for quantifying the capability gap and selecting rank is described at a high level but lacks explicit specification of the metric, whether a validation pass or task-specific signals are used, and whether any post-selection adjustment occurs; this directly affects whether the reported parameter-efficiency gains are comparable to baselines that receive no equivalent tuning.
  2. [§4] §4 (Experiments): No error bars, standard deviations across runs, or details on baseline re-implementations and hyperparameter matching are provided, undermining the load-bearing claim that CRAM 'consistently demonstrates its superiority' over existing methods.
  3. [§3.3] §3.3 (Centroid-Guided Routing): The orthogonality penalty is introduced to prevent re-learning general capabilities, yet no analysis shows that the penalty term does not inadvertently constrain adaptation on tasks that legitimately require updates to shared directions; this is central to the forgetting-mitigation argument.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Notation for expert centroids and routing scores is introduced without a consolidated table of symbols, making cross-section reference difficult.
  2. [Figure 2] Figure captions for routing visualizations do not state the number of tasks or experts visualized, reducing interpretability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below, indicating where revisions will be made to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Adaptive-Rank Instantiation): The procedure for quantifying the capability gap and selecting rank is described at a high level but lacks explicit specification of the metric, whether a validation pass or task-specific signals are used, and whether any post-selection adjustment occurs; this directly affects whether the reported parameter-efficiency gains are comparable to baselines that receive no equivalent tuning.

    Authors: We agree that the current description in §3.2 is insufficiently detailed. In the revised manuscript we will explicitly define the capability-gap metric (the performance delta on a small held-out set of task-specific examples), state that a single forward validation pass on new-task data is used without further tuning, and confirm that no post-selection adjustment is performed. These additions will allow direct comparison with baselines. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments): No error bars, standard deviations across runs, or details on baseline re-implementations and hyperparameter matching are provided, undermining the load-bearing claim that CRAM 'consistently demonstrates its superiority' over existing methods.

    Authors: We acknowledge the omission. The revised §4 and a new appendix will report mean and standard deviation over at least three independent runs for every method and metric. We will also document the exact re-implementation protocol for each baseline, including the hyperparameter search ranges and selection criteria used to ensure fair matching. Where additional runs are feasible we will perform them; otherwise we will clearly note the original experimental settings. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§3.3] §3.3 (Centroid-Guided Routing): The orthogonality penalty is introduced to prevent re-learning general capabilities, yet no analysis shows that the penalty term does not inadvertently constrain adaptation on tasks that legitimately require updates to shared directions; this is central to the forgetting-mitigation argument.

    Authors: The referee correctly identifies a missing analysis. While the centroid-routing mechanism is intended to permit reuse of existing experts for shared directions, we did not provide direct evidence that the orthogonality penalty leaves such reuse unimpeded. In the revision we will add an ablation that measures adaptation performance on tasks with controlled overlap to prior tasks, together with a visualization of gradient directions before and after the penalty, to substantiate the claim. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; method description contains no derivations or self-referential reductions

full rationale

The provided abstract and context contain no equations, parameter-fitting procedures, or derivation steps that could reduce to inputs by construction. Claims rest on high-level method descriptions and external experimental benchmarks rather than any self-definitional, fitted-input, or self-citation load-bearing chain. Absence of visible math or uniqueness theorems prevents identification of any circular step, consistent with the reader's note that no equations are present. This is the normal self-contained case for a methods paper without algebraic claims.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The method implicitly relies on the existence of identifiable task-specific patterns and measurable capability gaps, but these are not formalized.

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