Learning Optimal Prompt Ensemble for Multi-source Visual Prompt Transfer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12311v2
• Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:43:33 GMT
• Title: Learning Optimal Prompt Ensemble for Multi-source Visual Prompt Transfer
• Authors: Enming Zhang, Liwen Cao, Yanru Wu, Zijie Zhao, Guan Wang, Yang Li,
• Abstract summary: We propose HGPrompt, an adaptive framework for multi-source prompt transfer.<n>We first introduce an information-theoretic metric to evaluate the transferability of prompt-induced features.<n>We then propose a novel Gradient Alignment Regularization to mitigate gradient conflicts among prompts.
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• Abstract: Prompt tuning has emerged as a lightweight adaptation strategy for adapting foundation models to downstream tasks, particularly in resource-constrained systems. As pre-trained prompts have become valuable intellectual assets, combining multiple source prompts offers a promising approach to enhance generalization to new tasks by leveraging complementary knowledge from diverse sources. However, naive aggregation of these prompts often leads to representation collapse due to mutual interference, undermining their collective potential. To address these challenges, we propose HGPrompt, an adaptive framework for multi-source prompt transfer that learns optimal ensemble weights by jointly optimizing dual objectives: transferability and stability. Specifically, we first introduce an information-theoretic metric to evaluate the transferability of prompt-induced features on the target task, capturing the intrinsic alignment between the feature representations. Additionally, we propose a novel Gradient Alignment Regularization to mitigate gradient conflicts among prompts, enabling stable and coherent knowledge transfer from multiple sources while suppressing interference. Extensive experiments on the large-scale VTAB benchmark demonstrate that HGPrompt achieves state-of-the-art performance, validating its effectiveness in multi-source prompt transfer.

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