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TAP: Two-Stage Adaptive Personalization of Multi-Task and Multi-Modal Foundation Models in Federated Learning

Seohyun Lee, Wenzhi Fang, Dong-Jun Han, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour +1 more

Published

Sep 30, 2025

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

15% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

May 8, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

Background context only.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Weak or implicit
Validate from full paper
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

In federated learning (FL), local personalization of models has received significant attention, yet personalized fine-tuning of foundation models remains underexplored. In particular, there is a lack of understanding in the literature on how to personalize foundation models in settings where there exist heterogeneity not only in data, but also in tasks and modalities across the clients. To address this gap, we propose Two-Stage Adaptive Personalization (TAP). In the first stage, TAP leverages mismatched model architectures between clients and the server to selectively replace personalized parameters with global updates, explicitly limiting cross-task and cross-modality interference. In the second stage, TAP conducts post-FL distillation on the global model to recover a beneficial shared structure. By reintroducing generalizable knowledge only after the global model has stabilized, TAP enhances generalization without compromising personalization. In developing our methodology, we introduce the first convergence analysis of federated foundation model training at the server under modality-task pair heterogeneity across clients, and demonstrate the impact of the number of modality-task pairs on model fine-tuning. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of TAP across a variety of datasets and tasks in comparison to state-of-the-art baselines. The implementation code is publicly available at https://github.com/lee3296/TAP.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"In federated learning (FL), local personalization of models has received significant attention, yet personalized fine-tuning of foundation models remains underexplored."

Evaluation Modes

missing

None explicit

Validate eval design from full paper text.

"In federated learning (FL), local personalization of models has received significant attention, yet personalized fine-tuning of foundation models remains underexplored."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"In federated learning (FL), local personalization of models has received significant attention, yet personalized fine-tuning of foundation models remains underexplored."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"In federated learning (FL), local personalization of models has received significant attention, yet personalized fine-tuning of foundation models remains underexplored."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"In federated learning (FL), local personalization of models has received significant attention, yet personalized fine-tuning of foundation models remains underexplored."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
Coding
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
None
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

In federated learning (FL), local personalization of models has received significant attention, yet personalized fine-tuning of foundation models remains underexplored.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • In federated learning (FL), local personalization of models has received significant attention, yet personalized fine-tuning of foundation models remains underexplored.
  • In particular, there is a lack of understanding in the literature on how to personalize foundation models in settings where there exist heterogeneity not only in data, but also in tasks and modalities across the clients.
  • To address this gap, we propose Two-Stage Adaptive Personalization (TAP).

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • To address this gap, we propose Two-Stage Adaptive Personalization (TAP).
  • In developing our methodology, we introduce the first convergence analysis of federated foundation model training at the server under modality-task pair heterogeneity across clients, and demonstrate the impact of the number of modality-task…
  • Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of TAP across a variety of datasets and tasks in comparison to state-of-the-art baselines.

Why it matters for eval

  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.