Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning without Introducing New Latency

Baohao Liao, Yan Meng, Christof Monz


Abstract
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) of pre-trained language models has recently demonstrated remarkable achievements, effectively matching the performance of full fine-tuning while utilizing significantly fewer trainable parameters, and consequently addressing the storage and communication constraints. Nonetheless, various PEFT methods are limited by their inherent characteristics. In the case of sparse fine-tuning, which involves modifying only a small subset of the existing parameters, the selection of fine-tuned parameters is task- and domain-specific, making it unsuitable for federated learning. On the other hand, PEFT methods with adding new parameters typically introduce additional inference latency. In this paper, we demonstrate the feasibility of generating a sparse mask in a task-agnostic manner, wherein all downstream tasks share a common mask. Our approach, which relies solely on the magnitude information of pre-trained parameters, surpasses existing methodologies by a significant margin when evaluated on the GLUE benchmark. Additionally, we introduce a novel adapter technique that directly applies the adapter to pre-trained parameters instead of the hidden representation, thereby achieving identical inference speed to that of full fine-tuning. Through extensive experiments, our proposed method attains a new state-of-the-art outcome in terms of both performance and storage efficiency, storing only 0.03% parameters of full fine-tuning.
Anthology ID:
2023.acl-long.233
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4242–4260
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.233
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.233
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Baohao Liao, Yan Meng, and Christof Monz. 2023. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning without Introducing New Latency. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 4242–4260, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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