Summary of Tailored-llama: Optimizing Few-shot Learning in Pruned Llama Models with Task-specific Prompts, by Danyal Aftab et al.
Tailored-LLaMA: Optimizing Few-Shot Learning in Pruned LLaMA Models with Task-Specific Prompts
by Danyal Aftab, Steven Davy
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper investigates the fine-tuning of large language models (LLaMA) for specific tasks, aiming to reduce computational requirements while preserving performance. Two pruned LLaMA models with 5 billion and 4 billion parameters are fine-tuned using task-specific datasets and prompts, leveraging the LoRA method and a novel approach to optimize prompt design. The paper demonstrates that even heavily compressed models (50% reduction) can maintain over 65% of the original accuracy in few-shot classification and generation tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models are very smart at understanding and generating text. But making them from scratch requires a lot of computer power, which is expensive for many organizations. This paper looks at how to make these models better at doing specific tasks without needing as much computing power. The researchers used two large language models, “LLaMA”, and made them smaller by removing some parts. They then tested the small models on different tasks and found that they still worked very well, even when reduced in size. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Few shot » Fine tuning » Llama » Lora » Prompt
