Meta-Learning the Difference: Preparing Large Language Models for Efficient Adaptation
Published
2022-11-22
Zejiang Hou
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Julian Salazar
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George Polovets
Zejiang Hou
Princeton University
Julian Salazar
Amazon AWS AI
George Polovets
Amazon AWS AI
Abstract
Large pretrained language models (PLMs) are often domain- or task-adapted via finetuning or prompting. Finetuning requires modifying all of the parameters and having enough data to avoid overfitting while prompting requires no training and few examples but limits performance. Instead, we prepare PLMs for data- and parameter-efficient adaptation by learning to learn the difference between general and adapted PLMs. This difference is expressed in terms of model weights and sublayer structure through our proposed dynamic low-rank reparameterization and learned architecture controller. Experiments on few-shot dialogue completion, low-resource abstractive summarization, and multi-domain language modeling show improvements in adaptation time and performance over direct finetuning or preparation via domain-adaptive pretraining. Ablations show our task-adaptive reparameterization (TARP) and model search (TAMS) components individually improve on other parameter-efficient transfer like adapters and structure-learning methods like learned sparsification.
Article at MIT Press
Presented at EMNLP 2022
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