DiTASK: Multi-Task Fine-Tuning with Diffeomorphic Transformations
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Abstract (arXiv)
Pre-trained Vision Transformers now serve as powerful tools for computer vision. Yet, efficiently adapting them for multiple tasks remains a challenge that arises from the need to modify the rich hidden representations encoded by the learned weight matrices, without inducing interference between tasks. Current parameter-efficient methods like LoRA, which apply low-rank updates, force tasks to compete within constrained subspaces, ultimately degrading performance. We introduce DiTASK a novel Diffeomorphic Multi-Task Fine-Tuning approach that maintains pre-trained representations by preserving weight matrix singular vectors, while enabling task-specific adaptations through neural diffeomorphic transformations of the singular values. By following this approach, DiTASK enables both shared and task-specific feature modulations with minimal added parameters. Our theoretical analysis shows that DITASK achieves full-rank updates during optimization, preserving the geometric structure of pre-trained features, and establishing a new paradigm for efficient multi-task learning (MTL). Our experiments on PASCAL MTL and NYUD show that DiTASK achieves state-of-the-art performance across four dense prediction tasks, using 75% fewer parameters than existing methods. Our code is available [here](https://github.com/ipsitmantri/DiTASK).
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Citing papers per year: 2025: 3; 2026: 4.
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- 2026Quasi-SVD: Learning a Lie-constrained matrix factorisation for real-time imaging28 Jul 2026
- 2026Frequency Switching Mechanism for Parameter-E!cient Multi-Task Learning22 Mar 2026
- 2025MedSeqFT: Sequential Fine-tuning Foundation Models for 3D Medical Image Segmentation7 Sep 2025
- 2025TimePoint: Accelerated Time Series Alignment via Self-Supervised Keypoint and Descriptor Learning29 May 2025
- 2025PiCa: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Column Space Projection26 May 2025