Summary of Tuning Language Models by Mixture-of-depths Ensemble, By Haoyan Luo et al.
Tuning Language Models by Mixture-of-Depths Ensemble
by Haoyan Luo, Lucia Specia
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Oct 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 The abstract discusses a novel approach to training Large Language Models (LLMs) that leverages the predictive power embedded in intermediate layers. Instead of relying solely on final-layer loss and representations, the proposed Mixture-of-Depths (MoD) framework trains late layers as ensembles contributing to the final logits through learned routing weights. This approach demonstrates consistent improvement on various language modeling tasks while using significantly fewer trainable parameters. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study shows that we can improve our language models by looking at the information in the middle of the model, rather than just focusing on the end result. By training these “middle layers” to work together and contribute to the final answer, we can get better results without needing as many complex parts to our model. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Logits
