LLM-Adapters: An Adapter Family for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models (2023.emnlp-main)
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Zhiqiang Hu, Lei Wang, Yihuai Lan, Wanyu Xu, Ee-Peng Lim, Lidong Bing, Xing Xu, Soujanya Poria, Roy Lee
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have shown unprecedented performance across various tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose an easy-to-use framework that integrates adapters into LLMs . they evaluate adapters on 14 datasets from two different reasoning tasks . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can be used to fine-tune open-access language models with task-specific data and instruction data. |
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