Multi-modal Knowledge Preserving Adapter for Embedding Backward Compatibility
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The paper introduces the Multi-modal Knowledge Preserving Adapter (MKP-Adapter), an adapter-only approach that enables backward compatible training for multi-modal large language models without updating the backbone. It employs a multi-level preservation loss to maintain embedding geometry and a focal re-weighting strategy to focus on difficult samples. Experiments show strong backward compatibility across image, text, visual document, and video retrieval tasks with minimal latency overhead.
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