Summary of Controlled Low-rank Adaptation with Subspace Regularization For Continued Training on Large Language Models, by Yuheng Lu et al.
Controlled Low-Rank Adaptation with Subspace Regularization for Continued Training on Large Language Models
by Yuheng Lu, Bingshuo Qian, Caixia Yuan, Huixing Jiang, Xiaojie Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes Controlled LoRA (CLoRA), a subspace regularization method designed to mitigate catastrophic forgetting in large language models (LLMs) during finetuning. LLMs excel at natural language processing but struggle when adapting to new tasks, resulting in a significant decline in performance on previous tasks. CLoRA targets the problem by constraining the update matrix’s null space, reducing the impact of changes while maintaining model capacity. Experimental results demonstrate that CLoRA outperforms existing LoRA-based methods in both in-domain and out-of-domain evaluations, showcasing its effectiveness as a parameter-efficient finetuning method. Further analysis reveals that CLoRA balances the trade-off between model capacity and degree of forgetting. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making big language models better at learning new tasks without forgetting what they already know. Language models are really good at processing natural language, but when they learn a new task, they often forget things they knew before. The researchers created a new method called CLoRA to help prevent this problem. They tested it and found that it works well, even better than other methods. This is important because it means we can use these language models for many tasks without them forgetting what they learned earlier. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Lora » Natural language processing » Parameter efficient » Regularization
