AdaQLoRA: A Novel Paradigm in Low-Resource Visual Question Answering with Adaptive Quantization and Low-Rank Optimization
摘要
In the realm of Visual Question Answering (VQA), the integration of image understanding and language processing through models like the Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training (BLIP) has significantly advanced the field. However, as Multimodal Models (MM) grow in size, adapting such comprehensive models to low-resource VQA tasks becomes increasingly challenging due to high computational costs and storage requirements. To address these challenges, we introduce AdaQLoRA, which adaptively adjusts the allocation of parameters across weight matrices, leveraging quantization techniques and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) enhanced Low-rank Adapters (LoRA). This approach not only prioritizes weight matrices crucial for performance enhancement but also achieves a balance between low-precision storage and high-precision computation. Our strategy markedly improves computational efficiency for key parameters and reduces memory usage, thereby enhancing parameter utilization and the performance of the fine-tuned model. Extensive experiments on datasets such as VQA2.0, VizWiz, and Visual7W demonstrate that AdaQLoRA surpasses existing parameter-efficient tuning methods in terms of model performance, parameter efficiency, and training cost reduction.