Gate-and-Merge: Zero-shot Compositional Personalization of Vision Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08702v1
• Date: Sat, 09 May 2026 05:32:28 GMT
• Title: Gate-and-Merge: Zero-shot Compositional Personalization of Vision Language Models
• Abstract summary: We introduce Gate-and-Merge, a framework that enables compositional personalization without the need for co-occurrence training.<n>During personalization, each concept is learned independently as a lightweight LoRA adapter, paired with a concept token.<n>At inference, we enable composition by merging concept-specific LoRA updates directly in weight space.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper tackles compositional personalization of vision-language models (VLMs). In this problem, multiple user-defined concepts must be recognized or described jointly at test time. We introduce Gate-and-Merge, a zero-shot framework that enables compositional personalization without the need for co-occurrence training. During personalization, each concept is learned independently as a lightweight LoRA adapter, paired with a concept token. The base model remains unchanged and concepts are kept disentangled. At inference, we enable composition by merging concept-specific LoRA updates directly in weight space. To suppress irrelevant activations and prevent interference, a gating mechanism is employed to estimate textual and visual cues and select only the modules that contribute to the prediction. We further stabilize composition by combining only the most meaningful and mutually consistent updates, helping preserve each concept's identity. Our quantitative and qualitative analyses show consistent gains in performance across multiple personalization tasks in both single-concept and compositional settings.

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