Summary of Let the Expert Stick to His Last: Expert-specialized Fine-tuning For Sparse Architectural Large Language Models, by Zihan Wang et al.
Let the Expert Stick to His Last: Expert-Specialized Fine-Tuning for Sparse Architectural Large Language Models
by Zihan Wang, Deli Chen, Damai Dai, Runxin Xu, Zhuoshu Li, Y. Wu
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); 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 focuses on fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) with constrained resources, specifically exploring the parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method for LLMs with Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. The authors investigate the dispersion degree of activated experts in customized tasks and find that the routing distribution tends to be highly concentrated, while the distribution of activated experts varies significantly across different tasks. To address this, they propose Expert-Specialized Fine-Tuning (ESFT), which tunes the experts most relevant to downstream tasks while freezing other experts and modules. Experimental results demonstrate that ESFT improves tuning efficiency and matches or surpasses full-parameter fine-tuning performance. The authors also analyze the impact of MoE architecture on expert-specialized fine-tuning, finding that finer-grained experts enhance training efficiency and effectiveness. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making language models work better with limited resources. They want to find a way to customize these models without using too many computer resources or needing a lot of data. The researchers looked at how the model chooses which parts to use for different tasks, and they found that some parts are used more than others. To solve this problem, they developed a new method called Expert-Specialized Fine-Tuning (ESFT). This method helps the model focus on the most important parts and ignore the less important ones. The results show that ESFT works well and can even outperform traditional methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Mixture of experts » Parameter efficient
