Summary of Model-glue: Democratized Llm Scaling For a Large Model Zoo in the Wild, by Xinyu Zhao et al.
Model-GLUE: Democratized LLM Scaling for A Large Model Zoo in the Wild
by Xinyu Zhao, Guoheng Sun, Ruisi Cai, Yukun Zhou, Pingzhi Li, Peihao Wang, Bowen Tan, Yexiao He, Li Chen, Yi Liang, Beidi Chen, Binhang Yuan, Hongyi Wang, Ang Li, Zhangyang Wang, Tianlong Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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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 introduces Model-GLUE, a holistic Large Language Models (LLMs) scaling guideline that tackles the challenge of decreasing performance when combining disparate models. By benchmarking existing LLM scaling techniques, including selective merging and variants of mixture-of-experts, the authors formulate an optimal strategy for selecting and aggregating a heterogeneous model zoo. This approach involves clustering mergeable models, selecting an optimal merging strategy, and integrating clusters through a model mixture. The paper demonstrates that Model-GLUE achieves an average performance enhancement of 5.61% without additional training on a diverse Llama-2-based model zoo. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Model-GLUE is a new way to combine different language models together to make them better. Right now, combining these models can actually make them worse. The authors of this paper wanted to find a way to fix this problem. They tested many different ways to combine the models and found that one approach worked best. This approach groups similar models together and then combines them in a special way. When they tried this approach on some language models, it made them 5.61% better without needing any extra training. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Clustering » Llama » Mixture of experts
