Generative Adapter: Contextualizing Language Models in Parameters with A Single Forward Pass

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Main Authors: Chen, Tong, Fang, Hao, Xia, Patrick, Liu, Xiaodong, Van Durme, Benjamin, Zettlemoyer, Luke, Gao, Jianfeng, Cheng, Hao
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author Chen, Tong
Fang, Hao
Xia, Patrick
Liu, Xiaodong
Van Durme, Benjamin
Zettlemoyer, Luke
Gao, Jianfeng
Cheng, Hao
author_facet Chen, Tong
Fang, Hao
Xia, Patrick
Liu, Xiaodong
Van Durme, Benjamin
Zettlemoyer, Luke
Gao, Jianfeng
Cheng, Hao
contents Large language models (LMs) are typically adapted to improve performance on new contexts (\eg text prompts that define new tasks or domains) through fine-tuning or prompting. However, there is an accuracy compute tradeoff -- fine-tuning incurs significant training cost and prompting increases inference overhead. We introduce $GenerativeAdapter$, an effective and efficient adaptation method that directly maps new contexts to low-rank LM adapters, thereby significantly reducing inference overhead with no need for finetuning. The adapter generator is trained via self-supervised learning, and can be used to adapt a single frozen LM for any new task simply by mapping the associated task or domain context to a new adapter. We apply $GenerativeAdapter$ to two pretrained LMs (Mistral-7B-Instruct and Llama2-7B-Chat) and evaluate the adapted models in three adaption scenarios: knowledge acquisition from documents, learning from demonstrations, and personalization for users. In StreamingQA, our approach is effective in injecting knowledge into the LM's parameters, achieving a 63.5% improvement in F1 score over the model with supervised fine-tuning (from $19.5$ to $31.5$) for contexts as long as 32K tokens. In the MetaICL in-context learning evaluation, our method achieves an average accuracy of $44.9$ across 26 tasks, outperforming the base model. On MSC, our method proves to be highly competitive in memorizing user information from conversations with a 4x reduction in computation and memory costs compared to prompting with full conversation history. Together, these results suggest that $GenerativeAdapter$ should allow for general adaption to a wide range of different contexts.
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spellingShingle Generative Adapter: Contextualizing Language Models in Parameters with A Single Forward Pass
Chen, Tong
Fang, Hao
Xia, Patrick
Liu, Xiaodong
Van Durme, Benjamin
Zettlemoyer, Luke
Gao, Jianfeng
Cheng, Hao
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Large language models (LMs) are typically adapted to improve performance on new contexts (\eg text prompts that define new tasks or domains) through fine-tuning or prompting. However, there is an accuracy compute tradeoff -- fine-tuning incurs significant training cost and prompting increases inference overhead. We introduce $GenerativeAdapter$, an effective and efficient adaptation method that directly maps new contexts to low-rank LM adapters, thereby significantly reducing inference overhead with no need for finetuning. The adapter generator is trained via self-supervised learning, and can be used to adapt a single frozen LM for any new task simply by mapping the associated task or domain context to a new adapter. We apply $GenerativeAdapter$ to two pretrained LMs (Mistral-7B-Instruct and Llama2-7B-Chat) and evaluate the adapted models in three adaption scenarios: knowledge acquisition from documents, learning from demonstrations, and personalization for users. In StreamingQA, our approach is effective in injecting knowledge into the LM's parameters, achieving a 63.5% improvement in F1 score over the model with supervised fine-tuning (from $19.5$ to $31.5$) for contexts as long as 32K tokens. In the MetaICL in-context learning evaluation, our method achieves an average accuracy of $44.9$ across 26 tasks, outperforming the base model. On MSC, our method proves to be highly competitive in memorizing user information from conversations with a 4x reduction in computation and memory costs compared to prompting with full conversation history. Together, these results suggest that $GenerativeAdapter$ should allow for general adaption to a wide range of different contexts.
title Generative Adapter: Contextualizing Language Models in Parameters with A Single Forward Pass
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05877