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Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods (PEFTs) offer the promise of adapting large pre-trained models while only tuning a small number of parameters. They have been shown to be competitive with full model fine-tuning for many downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ahmet Üstün , Asa Cooper Stickland

Parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) is proposed as a cost-effective way to transfer pre-trained models to downstream tasks, avoiding the high cost of updating entire large-scale pre-trained models (LPMs). In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yijin Huang , Pujin Cheng , Roger Tam , Xiaoying Tang

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

Parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) aims to adapt pre-trained models to new downstream tasks while minimizing the number of fine-tuned parameters. Adapters, a popular approach in PETL, inject additional capacity into existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Aleksandra I. Nowak , Otniel-Bogdan Mercea , Anurag Arnab , Jonas Pfeiffer , Yann Dauphin , Utku Evci

The advent of hyper-scale and general-purpose pre-trained models is shifting the paradigm of building task-specific models for target tasks. In the field of audio research, task-agnostic pre-trained models with high transferability and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Hyun-seo Shin , Chan-yeong Lim , Ha-Jin Yu

Pre-training & fine-tuning is a prevalent paradigm in computer vision (CV). Recently, parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) methods have shown promising performance in adapting to downstream tasks with only a few trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Dongshuo Yin , Xueting Han , Bin Li , Hao Feng , Jing Bai

The success of large-scale pre-trained models has established fine-tuning as a standard method for achieving significant improvements in downstream tasks. However, fine-tuning the entire parameter set of a pre-trained model is costly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yijin Huang , Pujin Cheng , Roger Tam , Xiaoying Tang

Recent parameter-efficient language model tuning (PELT) methods manage to match the performance of fine-tuning with much fewer trainable parameters and perform especially well when training data is limited. However, different PELT methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yuning Mao , Lambert Mathias , Rui Hou , Amjad Almahairi , Hao Ma , Jiawei Han , Wen-tau Yih , Madian Khabsa

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

Fine-tuning large-scale Transformers has led to the explosion of many AI applications across Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision tasks. However, fine-tuning all pre-trained model parameters becomes impractical as the model size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 John Nguyen , Sid Wang , Ke Li , Carole-Jean Wu

Parameter-efficient tuning (PET) aims to transfer pre-trained foundation models to downstream tasks by learning a small number of parameters. Compared to traditional fine-tuning, which updates the entire model, PET significantly reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Kwonyoung Kim , Jungin Park , Jin Kim , Hyeongjun Kwon , Kwanghoon Sohn

Conventional fine-tuning encounters increasing difficulties given the size of current Pre-trained Language Models, which makes parameter-efficient tuning become the focal point of frontier research. Previous methods in this field add…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Wang Qi , Yu-Ping Ruan , Yuan Zuo , Taihao Li

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning approaches have recently garnered a lot of attention. Having considerably lower number of trainable weights, these methods can bring about scalability and computational effectiveness. In this paper, we look…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Mohammad Akbar-Tajari , Sara Rajaee , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Finetuning pretrained models occurs in a low-dimensional subspace of the full parameter space. Prior work has focused on characterizing this optimization subspace, but largely ignored the complementary question: why do certain directions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junjie Yu , Yue Wang , Zihan Deng , Yan Zhu , Wenxiao Ma , Quanying Liu

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has attracted significant attention due to the growth of pre-trained model sizes and the need to fine-tune (FT) them for superior downstream performance. Despite a surge in new PEFT methods, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zheda Mai , Ping Zhang , Cheng-Hao Tu , Hong-You Chen , Li Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao

Instruction tuning has shown promising potential for developing general-purpose AI capabilities by using large-scale pre-trained models and boosts growing research to integrate multimodal information for creative applications. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Yihang Zhai , Haixin Wang , Jianlong Chang , Xinlong Yang , Jinan Sun , Shikun Zhang , Qi Tian

With the success of large-scale pre-trained models (PTMs), how efficiently adapting PTMs to downstream tasks has attracted tremendous attention, especially for PTMs with billions of parameters. Although some parameter-efficient tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yitao Liu , Chenxin An , Xipeng Qiu

Parameter fine tuning is a transfer learning approach whereby learned parameters from pre-trained source network are transferred to the target network followed by fine-tuning. Prior research has shown that this approach is capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Tasfia Shermin , Shyh Wei Teng , Manzur Murshed , Guojun Lu , Ferdous Sohel , Manoranjan Paul

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods have emerged as a promising solution for adapting pre-trained models to various downstream tasks. While these methods perform well in single-task learning, extending them to multi-task learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Neeraj Gangwar , Anshuka Rangi , Rishabh Deshmukh , Holakou Rahmanian , Yesh Dattatreya , Nickvash Kani

The large models, as predicted by scaling raw forecasts, have made groundbreaking progress in many fields, particularly in natural language generation tasks, where they have approached or even surpassed human levels. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Luping Wang , Sheng Chen , Linnan Jiang , Shu Pan , Runze Cai , Sen Yang , Fei Yang