Summary of Natural Galore: Accelerating Galore For Memory-efficient Llm Training and Fine-tuning, by Arijit Das
Natural GaLore: Accelerating GaLore for memory-efficient LLM Training and Fine-tuning
by Arijit Das
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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| Summary difficulty | Written by | Summary |
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Natural GaLore method efficiently applies the inverse Empirical Fisher Information Matrix to low-rank gradients, allowing for faster optimization without requiring additional memory overhead. This is achieved through a simple drop-in replacement for AdamW that leverages Woodbury’s Identity. The method demonstrates significant speedups over previous approaches, particularly when the iteration budget is limited. Experimental results show that Natural GaLore achieves lower perplexity than GaLore without additional memory overhead on large-scale Llama models pretraining on C4 data. Additionally, fine-tuning RoBERTa on the GLUE benchmark and TinyLlama 1.1B model for function calling using the TinyAgent framework demonstrates significant performance improvements over existing methods, including LoRA and GPT4-Turbo, while using less memory. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Natural GaLore is a new way to make language models work faster on computers with limited memory. It’s like a shortcut that helps the model learn from data more quickly without needing extra space. This can be very helpful when working with large models and big datasets. The researchers tested Natural GaLore on several different tasks and showed that it performs better than other methods, using less memory in some cases. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Llama » Lora » Optimization » Perplexity » Pretraining
