CADRE: Stable, Parameter Efficient Adaptation of Medical Vision Language Models with Bounded Forgetting and Prior Drift
Researchers present CADRE, a parameter-efficient adaptation framework for medical vision-language models that addresses catastrophic forgetting and model drift when updating deployed systems. By combining low-rank adaptation with elastic weight consolidation and prior-anchoring penalties, CADRE reduces forgetting sevenfold while training only 0.23% of parameters, demonstrating improved stability across different medical imaging modalities.