LayerTracer analysis identifies deep LLM layers as stable task-critical regions, leading to a shallow-train deep-freeze strategy that outperforms full fine-tuning on C-Eval and CMMLU.
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Freeze Deep, Train Shallow: Interpretable Layer Allocation for Continued Pre-Training
LayerTracer analysis identifies deep LLM layers as stable task-critical regions, leading to a shallow-train deep-freeze strategy that outperforms full fine-tuning on C-Eval and CMMLU.