Summary of Fine-tuning or Fine-failing? Debunking Performance Myths in Large Language Models, by Scott Barnett et al.
Fine-Tuning or Fine-Failing? Debunking Performance Myths in Large Language Models
by Scott Barnett, Zac Brannelly, Stefanus Kurniawan, Sheng Wong
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Jun 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 A novel approach is proposed to improve Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines by fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs). The goal is to enhance the performance of RAG systems across multiple domains by extracting and integrating contextual data. LLMs are capable of understanding and generating human-like text, but their performance varies greatly depending on the specific use case. To address this limitation, OpenAI recommends fine-tuning models with at least 10 examples, which typically results in improved performance. However, this study finds that fine-tuning LLMs for RAG applications actually leads to a decline in performance compared to baseline models. This highlights the need for further investigation and validation of fine-tuned models for domain-specific tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A team of researchers is working on making computer programs better at understanding and generating text. They are using a special type of program called Large Language Models (LLMs). These LLMs can understand and generate human-like text, but they need to be trained or “fine-tuned” for specific tasks. The goal is to make these programs more accurate and helpful by giving them more information to work with. However, the researchers found that fine-tuning the models didn’t always make them better. Sometimes it even made them worse! This means we need to study this process more and make sure it works well for different types of tasks. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Fine tuning * Rag * Retrieval augmented generation
