Summary of Exploring Domain Robust Lightweight Reward Models Based on Router Mechanism, by Hyuk Namgoong et al.
Exploring Domain Robust Lightweight Reward Models based on Router Mechanism
by Hyuk Namgoong, Jeesu Jung, Sangkeun Jung, Yoonhyung Roh
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers propose novel approaches to fine-tune large language models for specific domains, addressing limitations in current methods that require retraining from scratch when new data is introduced. The authors explore three strategies: modularizing internal experts and routers, selecting domain-specific reward models with an external router, and loading adapters onto a single small language model. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of these approaches, achieving comparable performance to baseline methods while reducing parameter size. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models are getting better at understanding human feedback, but there’s still a problem: they need to be retrained every time we want them to work in a new area, like a different type of text. To solve this, the researchers tried three ideas. First, they split an internal expert into smaller parts that each handle a specific task. Second, they used a “router” to pick the right expert for the job from a group of experts trained on different types of data. Third, they loaded these routers and experts onto a single small model. The results show that this approach works just as well as older methods but takes up less space. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Language model
