SLIM: Let LLM Learn More and Forget Less with Soft LoRA and Identity Mixture
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| author | Han, Jiayi Du, Liang Du, Hongwei Zhou, Xiangguo Wu, Yiwen Zheng, Weibo Han, Donghong |
| author_facet | Han, Jiayi Du, Liang Du, Hongwei Zhou, Xiangguo Wu, Yiwen Zheng, Weibo Han, Donghong |
| contents | Although many efforts have been made, it is still a challenge to balance the training budget, downstream performance, and the general capabilities of the LLMs in many applications. Training the whole model for downstream tasks is expensive, and could easily result in catastrophic forgetting. By introducing parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT), the training cost could be reduced, but it still suffers from forgetting, and limits the learning on the downstream tasks. To efficiently fine-tune the LLMs with less limitation to their downstream performance while mitigating the forgetting of general capabilities, we propose a novel mixture of expert (MoE) framework based on Soft LoRA and Identity Mixture (SLIM), that allows dynamic routing between LoRA adapters and skipping connection, enables the suppression of forgetting. We adopt weight-yielding with sliding clustering for better out-of-domain distinguish to enhance the routing. We also propose to convert the mixture of low-rank adapters to the model merging formulation and introduce fast dynamic merging of LoRA adapters to keep the general capabilities of the base model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed SLIM is comparable to the state-of-the-art PEFT approaches on the downstream tasks while achieving the leading performance in mitigating catastrophic forgetting. |
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| spellingShingle | SLIM: Let LLM Learn More and Forget Less with Soft LoRA and Identity Mixture Han, Jiayi Du, Liang Du, Hongwei Zhou, Xiangguo Wu, Yiwen Zheng, Weibo Han, Donghong Machine Learning Computation and Language Although many efforts have been made, it is still a challenge to balance the training budget, downstream performance, and the general capabilities of the LLMs in many applications. Training the whole model for downstream tasks is expensive, and could easily result in catastrophic forgetting. By introducing parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT), the training cost could be reduced, but it still suffers from forgetting, and limits the learning on the downstream tasks. To efficiently fine-tune the LLMs with less limitation to their downstream performance while mitigating the forgetting of general capabilities, we propose a novel mixture of expert (MoE) framework based on Soft LoRA and Identity Mixture (SLIM), that allows dynamic routing between LoRA adapters and skipping connection, enables the suppression of forgetting. We adopt weight-yielding with sliding clustering for better out-of-domain distinguish to enhance the routing. We also propose to convert the mixture of low-rank adapters to the model merging formulation and introduce fast dynamic merging of LoRA adapters to keep the general capabilities of the base model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed SLIM is comparable to the state-of-the-art PEFT approaches on the downstream tasks while achieving the leading performance in mitigating catastrophic forgetting. |
| title | SLIM: Let LLM Learn More and Forget Less with Soft LoRA and Identity Mixture |
| topic | Machine Learning Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07739 |