SAM3-LoRA: Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of a Concept-Promptable Foundation Model for Multi-Class Structural Defect Segmentation

📅 2026-08-31
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本文使用低秩适应(LoRA)方法对SAM3进行参数高效调整,以解决多类结构缺陷分割问题,并提出了一种直接从COCO风格标注训练模型的监督程序。
📝 Abstract
Promptable segmentation foundation models such as SAM3 accept an open-vocabulary text concept and return every instance matching it, but adapting them to a specialized domain by full fine-tuning is computationally prohibitive for the organizations that would benefit most. This study applies Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to SAM3 for multi-class structural defect segmentation and examines both how such a model can be supervised from conventional annotation and whether the resulting efficiency gain transfers across datasets. Two contributions are methodological. First, we describe a supervision procedure that trains a concept-promptable model directly from COCO-style class-labeled instance segmentation by using the category name itself as the prompt, requiring no prompt templates, no synonym expansion, and no learned class embeddings. Second, we identify and mitigate a failure mode specific to this setting: because a conventional annotation file yields positive prompts exclusively, the model's presence prediction decouples from the text condition and degenerates into responding to any prompt, a collapse that is invisible to every metric computed on positive prompts alone. Exhaustive hard-negative prompting, in which every dataset category absent from an image is issued as a zero-detection query, addresses this at no annotation cost. Two adapter placements were compared under an identical protocol, updating 0.121% and 1.341% of model parameters. On a purpose-built tunnel lining dataset, pixel intersection-over-union improved from 0.017 to 0.338 and instance-level recall from 0.375 to 0.672; on the independent public Structural Defects Dataset, from 0.017 to 0.855 and from 0.574 to 1.000. Improvements were directionally consistent across ten metrics on both datasets, and the largest per-category gains occurred precisely where zero-shot competence was absent.
Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

Parameter-Efficient Adaptation
Concept-Promptable Foundation Model
Multi-Class Structural Defect Segmentation
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA)
Innovation

Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA)
concept-promptable model
multi-class structural defect segmentation
hard-negative prompting
parameter-efficient adaptation
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P. Malaisree
MAA Consultants Co., Ltd.; AI Research Group, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT); School of Engineering, University of Phayao
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S. Youwai
AI Research Group, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)
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S. Janrungautai
MAA Consultants Co., Ltd.; AI Research Group, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)
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D. Amorndechaphon
School of Engineering, University of Phayao
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P. Rojanavasu
School of Information and Communication Technology, University of Phayao
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W. Songkitti
Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR)