Network of Theseus (like the ship)

A new framework called GRASP (GRouped Activation Shared Parameterization) has been introduced for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of transformers, allowing for the training of large pre-trained models by updating only a small subset of parameters. This method partitions token representations into groups, learning shared scaling and shifting vectors to enhance model performance while significantly reducing the number of trainable parameters.

A novel method called Dual LoRA has been proposed to enhance the performance of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) in fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). This method introduces two distinct groups within low-rank matrices: a magnitude group for controlling the extent of parameter updates and a direction group for determining the update direction, thereby improving the adaptation process.

The Idea-Gated Transformer has been introduced as a novel architecture aimed at addressing the issue of 'Topic Drift' in Autoregressive Language Models (LLMs) during text generation. This model separates semantic planning from syntactic generation by utilizing an auxiliary 'Idea Head' that predicts future context, allowing for real-time vocabulary pruning to enhance coherence in generated text.

A recent study has demonstrated the potential of small language models (SLMs) to effectively support multimodal search and recommendation tasks, utilizing a framework that integrates upside-down reinforcement learning and synthetic data distillation from larger models like Llama-3. The 100M-parameter GPT-2 model achieved relevance and diversity scores comparable to larger counterparts while significantly reducing inference latency and memory overhead.