Summary of Ba-lora: Bias-alleviating Low-rank Adaptation to Mitigate Catastrophic Inheritance in Large Language Models, by Yupeng Chang et al.
BA-LoRA: Bias-Alleviating Low-Rank Adaptation to Mitigate Catastrophic Inheritance in Large Language Models
by Yupeng Chang, Yi Chang, Yuan Wu
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Aug 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 paper introduces Bias-Alleviating Low-Rank Adaptation (BA-LoRA), a novel parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method designed to counteract bias inheritance from pre-training data. BA-LoRA incorporates three regularization terms: consistency, diversity, and singular value decomposition, aiming to enhance models’ consistency, diversity, and generalization capabilities during fine-tuning. The method is evaluated on natural language understanding (NLU) and generation (NLG) tasks using prominent large language models (LLMs) such as LLaMA, Mistral, and Gemma. Experimental results show that BA-LoRA outperforms LoRA and its state-of-the-art variants, effectively mitigating the adverse effects of pre-training bias, leading to more reliable and robust model outputs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research helps make big language models better by making them less biased and more accurate. The problem is that these models are trained on old data that can be unfair or biased, which makes their results not always trustworthy. To solve this issue, the researchers created a new method called Bias-Alleviating Low-Rank Adaptation (BA-LoRA). It’s like a special kind of training that helps the model learn to ignore biased information and focus on what really matters. The team tested BA-LoRA on several tasks and found that it works better than other methods, producing more reliable and accurate results. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Generalization » Language understanding » Llama » Lora » Low rank adaptation » Parameter efficient » Regularization
