Cross-Task Large Language Model Fine-Tuning With Shared Subspaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current parameter-efficient fine-tuning approaches for large language models are limited by being single-task oriented, missing opportunities for generalization across domains and requiring high-quality annotated data.
Innovation Solution
A cross-task fine-tuning architecture that jointly fine-tunes a pre-trained large language model on multiple tasks with a shared context, leveraging shared low-rank matrices to identify common subspace features and reduce the need for additional data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If single-task fine-tuning is used for large language models, then task-specific performance is improved, but generalization across domains deteriorates and data requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple single-task fine-tuned models into a unified multi-task model. Each task's fine-tuned parameters are merged into a shared parameter space, allowing the model to learn common representations across tasks while maintaining task-specific capabilities through task-specific adaptation layers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal fine-tuned model that can perform multiple tasks simultaneously. By identifying and leveraging shared subspaces in the parameter space across different tasks, the model achieves multi-functionality without requiring separate fine-tuning for each task, thereby improving generalization.
2Measurement precision
If single-task fine-tuning is performed separately for each task, then task accuracy is improved, but the amount of annotated data required increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple task-specific datasets into a unified training framework. By combining datasets from multiple tasks and fine-tuning on the aggregated data, the model learns shared patterns that reduce the overall data requirement while maintaining task-specific accuracy through task-specific adaptation mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The universal fine-tuned model learns from diverse task data simultaneously, creating a more robust and generalizable representation. This multi-functional approach allows the model to leverage data from multiple tasks to improve performance on each individual task, reducing the need for large amounts of task-specific annotated data.
3Measurement precision
If multiple separate fine-tuned models are created for different tasks, then task-specific optimization is improved, but model complexity and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate fine-tuned models into a single unified model structure. Instead of maintaining separate models for each task, the system uses a shared parameter space with task-specific adaptation layers, reducing model complexity while preserving task-specific optimization capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified multi-task model serves as a universal solution that replaces multiple separate models. By implementing task-specific adaptation within a single model framework, the system reduces resource requirements and simplifies deployment while maintaining the ability to optimize for multiple tasks simultaneously.
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Aspects of the disclosure include an architecture for cross task large language model fine-tuning based on a shared context and methods of using the same. An exemplary method includes receiving a pre-trained large language model and receiving a set of fine-tuning tasks for the pre-trained large language model. The set of fine-tuning tasks includes at least a first fine-tuning task and a second fine-tuning task. The method includes generating, from the set of fine-tuning tasks, a first task combination including a subset of the set of fine-tuning tasks, identifying a shared subspace within the subset of the set of fine-tuning tasks, and responsive to identifying the shared subspace, fine-tuning the pre-trained large language model jointly over the first task combination.