PEMT: Multi-Task Correlation Guided Mixture-of-Experts Enables Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) is an effective method for adapting pre-trained language models to various tasks efficiently. |
| Approach: | They propose a parameter-efficient fine-tuning framework that captures transferable knowledge as a weighted combination of adapters trained on source tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method yields stable improvements over full fine-tuning and knowledge transferring methods on a broad range of tasks over 17 datasets. |
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