Jiayang Ren

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…Read more

Advanced optimization methods for interpretable machine learning models and their applications in chemical engineering

Jiayang Ren

The full abstract for this thesis is available in the body of the thesis, and will be available when the embargo expires.

Also available via: University of British Columbia