Parameter Efficient Sparsification Elaboration (PESC): A New AI Approach for Transitioning from Dense Models to Sparse Models Using a Mixture of Experts (Moe) Architecture

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Mistral, etc., has greatly accelerated recent advances in natural language processing (NLP). Instructional adjustment is a well-known approach to LLM training. This method allows LLMs to improve their pre-trained representations to follow human instructions using large-scale, well-formatted instruction data. However, these tasks are complex in themselves, making model fitting difficult. For general tasks, larger models may not be able to maximize losses from competing activities, leading to poor performance.

Increasing the capacity of the model can improve the effectiveness of instruction tuning for general tasks. However, most LLMs are dense pre-trained models built using a transformer architecture, which severely restricts scalability when modifying instructions. Instruction tuning offers the opportunity to achieve outstanding performance on general tasks by converting dense models to MoE models. The expert layers of the MoE models are initially configured as duplicates of the original feedforward neural network (FFN) layers to make this change. Training such massive models is hampered by computational costs and GPU memory limitations caused by the need to update expert weights in the MoE layer due to the large parameter scale of existing LLMs.

New research by the Shanghai artificial intelligence Laboratory and the Chinese University of Hong Kong presents Parameter Efficient Sparsification (PESC), a method for transforming dense models into sparse ones using the MoE model. By integrating adapters into the MoE layers of sparse models, PESC allows experts to be differentiated without changing their weights individually. This method dramatically reduces GPU memory needs and computational overhead. Because the adapters are integrated, the model's capacity can be expanded with minimal increase in parameters.

To differentiate between experts without changing the weights of each expert in the MoE layers, PESC inserts adapters into the MoE layers of sparse models. The researchers also update other sparse model weights using the QLoRA methodology, a popular PEFT method.

The researchers simultaneously trained the sparse model with MoE layers on various skills, including coding, mathematics, and other general talents from many areas, to illustrate the learning capabilities of the model. To fine-tune the instructions, this training integrated three separate datasets from different domains: SlimORCA, Magicoder, and MetaMathQA datasets. The final data set included 520,000 instructions after filtering and sampling.

In addition, they have used the PESC method to create disperse models of Camelidae. Camelidae-8Ï34B outperforms GPT-3.5 overall and achieves SOTA performance on all open source sparse models.

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