Stabilizing the Modality Gap: Null-Space Projected Continual Learning for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2507.19839 · cs.LG, cs.CV · Submitted 2025-07-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.CV

Submitted: 2025-07-26

Updated: 2026-10-13

Terminology

• Continual Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Modality Gap — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Catastrophic Forgetting — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Zero-Shot Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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