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Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) aims to adapt pre-trained models to specific tasks using relatively small and domain-specific datasets. Among Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) stands out by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yarui Cao , Kai Liu

Parameter-efficient finetuning (PEFT) has become the standard approach for adapting large language models, yet evaluations largely emphasize downstream accuracy while overlooking the retention of pretrained capabilities. We argue that PEFT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yangyi Huang , Ruotian Peng , Zeju Qiu , Jiale Kang , Yandong Wen , Bernhard Schölkopf , Weiyang Liu

Various parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) techniques have been proposed to enable computationally efficient fine-tuning while maintaining model performance. However, existing PEFT methods are still limited by the growing number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yifan Yang , Jiajun Zhou , Ngai Wong , Zheng Zhang

In this work, we propose a method that combines two popular research areas by injecting linguistic structures into pre-trained language models in the parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) setting. In our approach, parallel adapter modules…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Raymond Li , Gabriel Murray , Giuseppe Carenini

Large pre-trained models achieve remarkable performance in vision tasks but are impractical for fine-tuning due to high computational and storage costs. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods mitigate this issue by updating only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Siqi Luo , Haoran Yang , Yi Xin , Mingyang Yi , Guangyang Wu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaohong Liu

Due to their substantial sizes, large language models (LLMs) are typically deployed within a single-backbone multi-tenant framework. In this setup, a single instance of an LLM backbone must cater to multiple users or tasks through the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Tianfang Xie , Tianjing Li , Wei Zhu , Wei Han , Yi Zhao

Adapters have been positioned as a parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) approach, whereby a minimal number of parameters are added to the model and fine-tuned. However, adapters have not been sufficiently analyzed to understand if PEFT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Nandini Mundra , Sumanth Doddapaneni , Raj Dabre , Anoop Kunchukuttan , Ratish Puduppully , Mitesh M. Khapra

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) have demonstrated their superiority and versatility in modern Natural Language Processing (NLP), effectively adapting to various downstream tasks through further fine-tuning. Federated Parameter-Efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Fei Wu , Jia Hu , Geyong Min , Shiqiang Wang

This paper introduces Quantum-PEFT that leverages quantum computations for parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). Unlike other additive PEFT methods, such as low-rank adaptation (LoRA), Quantum-PEFT exploits an underlying full-rank yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Francesco Tonin , Yongtao Wu , Frank Zhengqing Wu , Leyla Naz Candogan , Volkan Cevher

Earth observation (EO) is crucial for monitoring environmental changes, responding to disasters, and managing natural resources. In this context, foundation models facilitate remote sensing image analysis to retrieve relevant geoinformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Francesc Marti-Escofet , Benedikt Blumenstiel , Linus Scheibenreif , Paolo Fraccaro , Konrad Schindler

The emergence of foundation models, including language and vision models, has reshaped AI's landscape, offering capabilities across various applications. Deploying and fine-tuning these large models, like GPT-3 and BERT, presents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Terence Jie Chua , Wenhan Yu , Jun Zhao , Kwok-Yan Lam

To enhance the performance of large language models (LLM) on downstream tasks, one solution is to fine-tune certain LLM parameters and make it better align with the characteristics of the training dataset. This process is commonly known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chao Gao , Sai Qian Zhang

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) is an effective method for adapting pre-trained vision models to downstream tasks by tuning a small subset of parameters. Among PEFT methods, sparse tuning achieves superior performance by only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shufan Shen , Junshu Sun , Xiangyang Ji , Qingming Huang , Shuhui Wang

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has shown its effectiveness in adapting the pre-trained language models to downstream tasks while only updating a small number of parameters. Despite the success, most existing methods independently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Hao Zhao , Jie Fu , Zhaofeng He

Large language models (LLMs) and vision language models (VLMs) demonstrate excellent performance on a wide range of tasks by scaling up parameter counts from O(10^9) to O(10^{12}) levels and further beyond. These large scales make it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yaqing Wang , Jialin Wu , Tanmaya Dabral , Jiageng Zhang , Geoff Brown , Chun-Ta Lu , Frederick Liu , Yi Liang , Bo Pang , Michael Bendersky , Radu Soricut

Pruning is an effective method for compressing Large Language Models, but finding an optimal, non-uniform layer-wise sparsity allocation remains a key challenge. While heuristic methods are fast but yield suboptimal performance, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xin Yuan , Siqi Li , Jiateng Wei , Chengrui Zhu , Yanming Wu , Qingpeng Li , Jiajun Lv , Xiaoke Lan , Jun Chen , Yong Liu

Post-training of Large Language Models often involves a pipeline of Supervised Finetuning (SFT) followed by Preference Finetuning (PFT) using methods like Direct Preference Optimization. Both stages require annotated data that are very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mohit Raghavendra , Junmo Kang , Alan Ritter

Parameter-efficient finetuning (PEFT) methods effectively adapt large language models (LLMs) to diverse downstream tasks, reducing storage and GPU memory demands. Despite these advantages, several applications pose new challenges to PEFT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Baohao Liao , Christof Monz

Training large foundation models from scratch for domain-specific applications is almost impossible due to data limits and long-tailed distributions -- taking remote sensing (RS) as an example. Fine-tuning natural image pre-trained models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zichen Tian , Yaoyao Liu , Qianru Sun

Personalization in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly important, aiming to align the LLMs' interactions, content, and recommendations with individual user preferences. Recent advances have highlighted effective prompt design by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhaoxuan Tan , Qingkai Zeng , Yijun Tian , Zheyuan Liu , Bing Yin , Meng Jiang