Mixture of Experts for Audio-Visual Learning Yang Li1,2 Junjie He1,2

With the rapid development of multimedia technology, audio-visual learning has emerged as a promising research topic within the field of multimodal analysis. In this paper, we explore parameter-efficient transfer learning for audio-visual learning and propose the Audio-Visual Mixture of Experts (AVMoE) to inject adapters into pre-trained models flexibly. Specifically, we introduce unimodal and cross-modal adapters as multiple experts to specialize in intra-modal and intermodal information, respectively, and employ a lightweight router to dynamically allocate the weights of each expert according to the specific demands of each task. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed approach AVMoE achieves superior performance across multiple audio-visual tasks, including AVE, AVVP, AVS, and AVQA. Furthermore, visual-only experimental results also indicate that our approach can tackle challenging scenes where modality information is missing.