Summary of A Semantic-aware Layer-freezing Approach to Computation-efficient Fine-tuning Of Language Models, by Jian Gu et al.
A Semantic-Aware Layer-Freezing Approach to Computation-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Language Models
by Jian Gu, Aldeida Aleti, Chunyang Chen, Hongyu Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper presents a pioneering work in reducing the cost of backpropagation by determining where to fine-tune language models (LMs) for downstream tasks. The authors propose a semantic analysis of LMs’ inference process using transition traces and compute deviations to estimate the gain of each layer. They also study the cost-benefit balance of LM fine-tuning and demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of their approach through extensive experiments on well-known LMs and datasets. Compared to existing baselines, this method outperforms them, offering practical values for LM fine-tuning. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps make language models more useful by figuring out how to adjust them for specific tasks without wasting time and resources. The researchers looked at the internal workings of language models and found a way to identify which parts need adjustments. They tested their method on many different models and datasets, and it worked better than previous methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Backpropagation » Fine tuning » Inference
