Summary of Higher Layers Need More Lora Experts, by Chongyang Gao and Kezhen Chen and Jinmeng Rao and Baochen Sun and Ruibo Liu and Daiyi Peng and Yawen Zhang and Xiaoyuan Guo and Jie Yang and Vs Subrahmanian
Higher Layers Need More LoRA Experts
by Chongyang Gao, Kezhen Chen, Jinmeng Rao, Baochen Sun, Ruibo Liu, Daiyi Peng, Yawen Zhang, Xiaoyuan Guo, Jie Yang, VS Subrahmanian
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Feb 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 This paper explores the application of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) and Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) techniques to improve the efficiency of Large Language Models. Specifically, it introduces MoLA, a novel parameter-efficient MoE method for Transformer-based models that allows each layer to employ varying numbers of LoRA experts. The authors investigate different architectures with distinct layer-wise expert configurations and demonstrate their effectiveness on six NLP and commonsense QA benchmarks. Results show that allocating more LoRA experts to higher layers enhances model performance, even when using fewer parameters overall. This work provides a plug-and-play parameter-efficient tuning approach for various applications. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making large language models better by using new techniques. It combines two ideas: MoE (Mixture-of-Experts) and LoRA (Low-rank adaptation). The new method, called MoLA, lets each layer of the model use a different number of experts to help it learn. The authors tested this idea on six different tasks and showed that it works well. They found that if you give more “experts” to the higher layers, the model gets even better! This means that you can make the model smaller (use fewer parameters) and still get good results. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Lora » Low rank adaptation » Mixture of experts » Nlp » Parameter efficient » Transformer
