Summary of Flora: Federated Fine-tuning Large Language Models with Heterogeneous Low-rank Adaptations, by Ziyao Wang et al.
FLoRA: Federated Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Heterogeneous Low-Rank Adaptations
by Ziyao Wang, Zheyu Shen, Yexiao He, Guoheng Sun, Hongyi Wang, Lingjuan Lyu, Ang Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
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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 presents a novel approach to federated fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs) in heterogeneous settings, addressing the challenges posed by massive model scales and resource constraints. The proposed method, FLORA, introduces a stacking-based aggregation method for federated learning (FL) on low-rank adapters (LoRA), ensuring noise-free and accurate fine-tuning. Experimental results demonstrate superior performance of FLORA compared to state-of-the-art methods in both homogeneous and heterogeneous settings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about making it easier to use big language models in different places without sharing their data. This is important for privacy reasons. The current way of doing this, called federated learning, has some problems when used with these large models. The researchers propose a new method called FLORA that solves these issues and works better than existing methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Federated learning » Fine tuning » Lora
