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arxiv 2406.16797 v2 pith:7CG7CC47 submitted 2024-06-24 cs.CL cs.AI

Lottery Ticket Adaptation: Mitigating Destructive Interference in LLMs

Ashwinee Panda , Berivan Isik , Xiangyu Qi , Sanmi Koyejo , Tsachy Weissman , Prateek Mittal This is my paper
classification cs.CL cs.AI
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Existing methods for adapting large language models (LLMs) to new tasks are not suited to multi-task adaptation because they modify all the model weights -- causing destructive interference between tasks. The resulting effects, such as catastrophic forgetting of earlier tasks, make it challenging to obtain good performance on multiple tasks at the same time. To mitigate this, we propose Lottery Ticket Adaptation (LoTA), a sparse adaptation method that identifies and optimizes only a sparse subnetwork of the model. We evaluate LoTA on a wide range of challenging tasks such as instruction following, reasoning, math, and summarization. LoTA obtains better performance than full fine-tuning and low-rank adaptation (LoRA), and maintains good performance even after training on other tasks -- thus, avoiding catastrophic forgetting. By extracting and fine-tuning over lottery tickets (or sparse task vectors), LoTA also enables model merging over highly dissimilar tasks. Our code is made publicly available at https://github.com/kiddyboots216/lottery-ticket-adaptation.

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