Language Model Fine Tuning
Fine-tuning pre-trained language models (LLMs) adapts these powerful models to specific downstream tasks, improving performance and addressing limitations like factual inaccuracies or biases. Current research emphasizes efficient fine-tuning techniques, including methods that reduce computational costs (e.g., using adapters or low-rank adaptations) and enhance privacy (e.g., through differential privacy). These advancements are crucial for broadening LLM applications across diverse fields, from scientific writing assistance to drug discovery, while mitigating risks associated with their deployment.
Papers
Healing Powers of BERT: How Task-Specific Fine-Tuning Recovers Corrupted Language Models
Shijie Han, Zhenyu Zhang, Andrei Arsene Simion
Mind the Privacy Unit! User-Level Differential Privacy for Language Model Fine-Tuning
Lynn Chua, Badih Ghazi, Yangsibo Huang, Pritish Kamath, Ravi Kumar, Daogao Liu, Pasin Manurangsi, Amer Sinha, Chiyuan Zhang
Demystifying Forgetting in Language Model Fine-Tuning with Statistical Analysis of Example Associations
Xisen Jin, Xiang Ren
Information Guided Regularization for Fine-tuning Language Models
Mandar Sharma, Nikhil Muralidhar, Shengzhe Xu, Raquib Bin Yousuf, Naren Ramakrishnan