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Hauptverfasser: Li, Xia, Kim, Allen
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author Li, Xia
Kim, Allen
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Kim, Allen
contents Classifying Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) in software development life cycle is critical. Inspired by the theory of transfer learning, researchers apply powerful pre-trained models for NFR classification. However, full fine-tuning by updating all parameters of the pre-trained models is often impractical due to the huge number of parameters involved (e.g., 175 billion trainable parameters in GPT-3). In this paper, we apply Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) fine-tuning approach into NFR classification based on prompt-based learning to investigate its impact. The experiments show that LoRA can significantly reduce the execution cost (up to 68% reduction) without too much loss of effectiveness in classification (only 2%-3% decrease). The results show that LoRA can be practical in more complicated classification cases with larger dataset and pre-trained models.
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spellingShingle A Study to Evaluate the Impact of LoRA Fine-tuning on the Performance of Non-functional Requirements Classification
Li, Xia
Kim, Allen
Software Engineering
Classifying Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) in software development life cycle is critical. Inspired by the theory of transfer learning, researchers apply powerful pre-trained models for NFR classification. However, full fine-tuning by updating all parameters of the pre-trained models is often impractical due to the huge number of parameters involved (e.g., 175 billion trainable parameters in GPT-3). In this paper, we apply Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) fine-tuning approach into NFR classification based on prompt-based learning to investigate its impact. The experiments show that LoRA can significantly reduce the execution cost (up to 68% reduction) without too much loss of effectiveness in classification (only 2%-3% decrease). The results show that LoRA can be practical in more complicated classification cases with larger dataset and pre-trained models.
title A Study to Evaluate the Impact of LoRA Fine-tuning on the Performance of Non-functional Requirements Classification
topic Software Engineering
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07927