Summary of Sparse Mezo: Less Parameters For Better Performance in Zeroth-order Llm Fine-tuning, by Yong Liu et al.
Sparse MeZO: Less Parameters for Better Performance in Zeroth-Order LLM Fine-Tuning
by Yong Liu, Zirui Zhu, Chaoyu Gong, Minhao Cheng, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Yang You
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Feb 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 In this paper, researchers address the issue of memory inefficiency in fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for specific tasks. They propose a novel optimization approach called Sparse MeZO, which applies zeroth-order optimization only to a carefully chosen subset of parameters. This approach requires inference-level memory consumption and achieves significant performance gains without any overhead. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding ways to make big language models work better on smaller computers. Right now, it’s hard to train these models because they need too much computer power. The scientists in this study came up with a new way to train the models that uses less computer power. They call it Sparse MeZO and it works really well. It makes the model more accurate and trains faster than before. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Fine tuning * Inference * Optimization
