arxivcs.LGcs.AIcs.CVcs.DC2026-07-13
Continual Learning with Elastic Regularization and Synthetic Replay for Federated MLLM Fine-Tuning
Jing Liu, Chenxuanyin Zou, Jiayang Ren, Gaoyun Fang, Chengfang Li, Yan Wang, et al.
Federated fine-tuning of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) across distributed networks enables privacy-sensitive adaptation to evolving data streams, yet a fundamental obstacle prevents robust deployment in dynamic environments: catastrophic forgetting, wherein sequential…