Pareto Low-Rank Adapters: Efficient Multi-Task Learning with Preferences

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Hauptverfasser: Dimitriadis, Nikolaos, Frossard, Pascal, Fleuret, Francois
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author Dimitriadis, Nikolaos
Frossard, Pascal
Fleuret, Francois
author_facet Dimitriadis, Nikolaos
Frossard, Pascal
Fleuret, Francois
contents Multi-task trade-offs in machine learning can be addressed via Pareto Front Learning (PFL) methods that parameterize the Pareto Front (PF) with a single model. PFL permits to select the desired operational point during inference, contrary to traditional Multi-Task Learning (MTL) that optimizes for a single trade-off decided prior to training. However, recent PFL methodologies suffer from limited scalability, slow convergence, and excessive memory requirements, while exhibiting inconsistent mappings from preference to objective space. We introduce PaLoRA, a novel parameter-efficient method that addresses these limitations in two ways. First, we augment any neural network architecture with task-specific low-rank adapters and continuously parameterize the PF in their convex hull. Our approach steers the original model and the adapters towards learning general and task-specific features, respectively. Second, we propose a deterministic sampling schedule of preference vectors that reinforces this division of labor, enabling faster convergence and strengthening the validity of the mapping from preference to objective space throughout training. Our experiments show that PaLoRA outperforms state-of-the-art MTL and PFL baselines across various datasets, scales to large networks, reducing the memory overhead $23.8-31.7$ times compared with competing PFL baselines in scene understanding benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Pareto Low-Rank Adapters: Efficient Multi-Task Learning with Preferences
Dimitriadis, Nikolaos
Frossard, Pascal
Fleuret, Francois
Machine Learning
Multi-task trade-offs in machine learning can be addressed via Pareto Front Learning (PFL) methods that parameterize the Pareto Front (PF) with a single model. PFL permits to select the desired operational point during inference, contrary to traditional Multi-Task Learning (MTL) that optimizes for a single trade-off decided prior to training. However, recent PFL methodologies suffer from limited scalability, slow convergence, and excessive memory requirements, while exhibiting inconsistent mappings from preference to objective space. We introduce PaLoRA, a novel parameter-efficient method that addresses these limitations in two ways. First, we augment any neural network architecture with task-specific low-rank adapters and continuously parameterize the PF in their convex hull. Our approach steers the original model and the adapters towards learning general and task-specific features, respectively. Second, we propose a deterministic sampling schedule of preference vectors that reinforces this division of labor, enabling faster convergence and strengthening the validity of the mapping from preference to objective space throughout training. Our experiments show that PaLoRA outperforms state-of-the-art MTL and PFL baselines across various datasets, scales to large networks, reducing the memory overhead $23.8-31.7$ times compared with competing PFL baselines in scene understanding benchmarks.
title Pareto Low-Rank Adapters: Efficient Multi-Task Learning with Preferences
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08056