Papers with soft-masking mechanism
Balancing Speciality and Versatility: a Coarse to Fine Framework for Supervised Fine-tuning Large Language Model (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Aligned Large Language Models exhibit remarkable versatility, capable of handling diverse real-world tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a coarse to fine framework to fine-tune aligned Large Language Models to achieve a balance between speciality and versatility. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods across diverse tasks and model scales. |
Conan-Embedding-v2: Training an LLM from Scratch for Text Embeddings (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies use LoRA to fine-tune existing LLMs, but this is limited by the data and training gap between them and embedding models. |
| Approach: | They propose a new 1.4B-parameter LLM trained from scratch and fine-tuned as a text embedder that integrates embeddings across different languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves performance on the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) and Chinese MTEB (May 19, 2025). |
Sub-network Discovery and Soft-masking for Continual Learning of Mixed Tasks (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for Continual Learning (CL) have limited KT and catastrophic forgetting . a new method overcomes CF by isolating the knowledge of each task . |
| Approach: | They propose a method to overcome catastrophic forgetting and encourage knowledge transfer . they propose to discover a sub-network for each task and a soft-masking mechanism to preserve the previous knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baselines in classification, generation, information extraction and their mixture. |