Low-resource domain adaptation while minimizing energy and hardware resource consumption

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Main Authors: Maina, Hernán, Wolovick, Nicolás, Benotti, Luciana
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author Maina, Hernán
Wolovick, Nicolás
Benotti, Luciana
author_facet Maina, Hernán
Wolovick, Nicolás
Benotti, Luciana
contents Training Large Language Models (LLMs) is costly in terms of energy, hardware, and annotated data, often resulting in a positionality rooted in predominant cultures and values (Santy et al., 2023). Domain adaptation has emerged as a promising strategy to better align models with diverse cultural and value contexts (Hershcovich et al., 2022), but its computational cost remains a significant barrier, particularly for research groups lacking access to large-scale infrastructure. In this paper, we evaluate how the use of different numerical precision formats and data parallelization strategies impacts both training speed (as a proxy to energy and hardware consumption) and model accuracy, with the goal of facilitating domain adaptation in low-resource environments. Our findings are relevant to any setting where energy efficiency, accessibility, or limited hardware availability are key concerns.
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spellingShingle Low-resource domain adaptation while minimizing energy and hardware resource consumption
Maina, Hernán
Wolovick, Nicolás
Benotti, Luciana
Computation and Language
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Machine Learning
Training Large Language Models (LLMs) is costly in terms of energy, hardware, and annotated data, often resulting in a positionality rooted in predominant cultures and values (Santy et al., 2023). Domain adaptation has emerged as a promising strategy to better align models with diverse cultural and value contexts (Hershcovich et al., 2022), but its computational cost remains a significant barrier, particularly for research groups lacking access to large-scale infrastructure. In this paper, we evaluate how the use of different numerical precision formats and data parallelization strategies impacts both training speed (as a proxy to energy and hardware consumption) and model accuracy, with the goal of facilitating domain adaptation in low-resource environments. Our findings are relevant to any setting where energy efficiency, accessibility, or limited hardware availability are key concerns.
title Low-resource domain adaptation while minimizing energy and hardware resource consumption
topic Computation and Language
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08433