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LoRAMoE: Mixture of Experts for Maintaining World Knowledge in LLM Alignment (arxiv.org)
2 points by Jimmc414 on Dec 24, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Fine-tuning a chat model on lots of instruction examples can wipe out facts it knew. This adds modules with a router that routes work between them, keeping the model fixed and reserving some for world knowledge, so it gains task skill without losing facts.

Abstract · LoRAMoE: Alleviate World Knowledge Forgetting in Large Language Models via MoE-Style Plugin

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a crucial step for large language models (LLMs), enabling them to align with human instructions and enhance their capabilities in downstream tasks. Increasing instruction data substantially is a direct solution to align the model with a broader range of downstream tasks or notably improve its performance on a specific task. However, we find that large-scale increases in instruction data can damage the world knowledge previously stored in LLMs. To address this challenge, we propose LoRAMoE, a novelty framework that introduces several low-rank adapters (LoRA) and integrates them by using a router network, like a plugin version of Mixture of Experts (MoE). It freezes the backbone model and forces a portion of LoRAs to focus on leveraging world knowledge to solve downstream tasks, to alleviate world knowledge-edge forgetting. Experimental results show that, as the instruction data increases, LoRAMoE can significantly improve the ability to process downstream tasks, while maintaining the world knowledge stored in the LLM.

Shihan Dou, Enyu Zhou, Yan Liu, Songyang Gao, Jun Zhao, Wei Shen, Yuhao Zhou, Zhiheng Xi, Xiao Wang, Xiaoran Fan, Shiliang Pu, Jiang Zhu, et al.
arXiv:2312.09979 · cs.CL · submitted Dec 15, 2023 · updated Mar 8, 2024
abstract · pdf · html · 14 pages, 7 figures

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