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Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has emerged as an effective method for adapting pre-trained language models to various tasks efficiently. Recently, there has been a growing interest in transferring knowledge from one or multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Zhisheng Lin , Han Fu , Chenghao Liu , Zhuo Li , Jianling Sun

Neural Transfer Learning (TL) is becoming ubiquitous in Natural Language Processing (NLP), thanks to its high performance on many tasks, especially in low-resourced scenarios. Notably, TL is widely used for neural domain adaptation to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Sara Meftah , Nasredine Semmar , Youssef Tamaazousti , Hassane Essafi , Fatiha Sadat

In the arena of language model fine-tuning, the traditional approaches, such as Domain-Adaptive Pretraining (DAPT) and Task-Adaptive Pretraining (TAPT), although effective, but computational intensive. This research introduces a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Keyu Chen , Yuan Pang , Zi Yang

State-of-the-art performance on language understanding tasks is now achieved with increasingly large networks; the current record holder has billions of parameters. Given a language model pre-trained on massive unlabeled text corpora, only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Evani Radiya-Dixit , Xin Wang

Recent advances in NLP demonstrate the effectiveness of training large-scale language models and transferring them to downstream tasks. Can fine-tuning these models on tasks other than language modeling further improve performance? In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Tu Vu , Tong Wang , Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Alessandro Sordoni , Adam Trischler , Andrew Mattarella-Micke , Subhransu Maji , Mohit Iyyer

It has become a popular paradigm to transfer the knowledge of large-scale pre-trained models to various downstream tasks via fine-tuning the entire model parameters. However, with the growth of model scale and the rising number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Anchun Gui , Jinqiang Ye , Han Xiao

There has been growing interest in parameter-efficient methods to apply pre-trained language models to downstream tasks. Building on the Prompt Tuning approach of Lester et al. (2021), which learns task-specific soft prompts to condition a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Tu Vu , Brian Lester , Noah Constant , Rami Al-Rfou , Daniel Cer

Adapter-tuning is a paradigm that transfers a pretrained language model to downstream tasks by adding and tuning a small number of new parameters. Previously proposed adapter architectures are all feed-forward neural networks. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Hongyu Zhao , Hao Tan , Hongyuan Mei

Parameter efficient learning methods (PERMs) have recently gained significant attention as they provide an efficient way for pre-trained language models (PLMs) to adapt to a downstream task. However, these conclusions are mostly drawn from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Peng Xu , Mostofa Patwary , Shrimai Prabhumoye , Virginia Adams , Ryan J. Prenger , Wei Ping , Nayeon Lee , Mohammad Shoeybi , Bryan Catanzaro

The performance of the Vision-and-Language Navigation~(VLN) tasks has witnessed rapid progress recently thanks to the use of large pre-trained vision-and-language models. However, full fine-tuning the pre-trained model for every downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yanyuan Qiao , Zheng Yu , Qi Wu

Large pretrained language models (PLMs) are often domain- or task-adapted via fine-tuning or prompting. Finetuning requires modifying all of the parameters and having enough data to avoid overfitting while prompting requires no training and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Zejiang Hou , Julian Salazar , George Polovets

Transformer-based deep NLP models are trained using hundreds of millions of parameters, limiting their applicability in computationally constrained environments. In this paper, we study the cause of these limitations by defining a notion of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Fahim Dalvi , Hassan Sajjad , Nadir Durrani , Yonatan Belinkov

Parameter-Efficient transfer learning with Adapters have been studied in Natural Language Processing (NLP) as an alternative to full fine-tuning. Adapters are memory-efficient and scale well with downstream tasks by training small…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Vaishali Pal , Carlos Lassance , Hervé Déjean , Stéphane Clinchant

This paper addresses the issues of parameter redundancy, rigid structure, and limited task adaptability in the fine-tuning of large language models. It proposes an adapter-based fine-tuning method built on a structure-learnable mechanism.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ming Gong , Yingnan Deng , Nia Qi , Yujun Zou , Zhihao Xue , Yun Zi

Fine-tuning pre-trained language models for multiple tasks tends to be expensive in terms of storage. To mitigate this, parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) methods have been proposed to address this issue, but they still require a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Guangtao Zeng , Peiyuan Zhang , Wei Lu

Fine-tuning large pre-trained models on downstream tasks has been adopted in a variety of domains recently. However, it is costly to update the entire parameter set of large pre-trained models. Although recently proposed parameter-efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yi-Lin Sung , Jaemin Cho , Mohit Bansal

Transformer-based pre-trained language models have significantly improved the performance of various natural language processing (NLP) tasks in the recent years. While effective and prevalent, these models are usually prohibitively large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Dongkuan Xu , Ian E. H. Yen , Jinxi Zhao , Zhibin Xiao

Transfer learning from large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a powerful technique to enable knowledge-based fine-tuning for a number of tasks, adaptation of models for different domains and even languages. However, it remains an open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Sovesh Mohapatra , Somesh Mohapatra

A recent family of techniques, dubbed lightweight fine-tuning methods, facilitates parameter-efficient transfer learning by updating only a small set of additional parameters while keeping the parameters of the pretrained language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Mozhdeh Gheini , Xuezhe Ma , Jonathan May

Parameters in deep neural networks which are trained on large-scale databases can generalize across multiple domains, which is referred as "transferability". Unfortunately, the transferability is usually defined as discrete states and it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Yinghua Zhang , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang