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Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning of Segment Anything Model

1 Feb 2025arXiv:2502.00418archive 2025-07-28

Carolin Teuber, Anwai Archit, Constantin Pape

Segmentation is an important analysis task for biomedical images, enabling the study of individual organelles, cells or organs. Deep learning has massively improved segmentation methods, but challenges remain in generalization to new conditions, requiring costly data annotation. Vision foundation models, such as Segment Anything Model (SAM), address this issue through broad segmentation capabilities. However, these models still require finetuning on annotated data, although with less annotations, to achieve optimal results for new conditions. As a downside, they require more computational resources. This makes parameter-efficient finetuning (PEFT) relevant for their application. We contribute the first comprehensive study of PEFT for SAM applied to biomedical segmentation by evaluating 9 PEFT methods on diverse datasets. We also provide an implementation of QLoRA for vision transformers and a new approach for resource-efficient finetuning of SAM. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/computational-cell-analytics/peft-sam.

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