受生物神经突触启发,提出高效微调方法SAN,显著提升模型性能。
SAN: Hypothesizing Long-Term Synaptic Development and Neural Engram Mechanism in Scalable Model's Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- 基于生物突触可塑性机制,设计参数高效微调新方法
- 在25个视觉、8个语言、7个图文任务上超越全量微调与LoRA
- 适合追求高性能且资源受限的模型部署场景
参数高效微调(PEFT)通过深入分析预训练参数空间,缩小了与全量微调(FFT)的性能差距。受生物神经网络中神经印记(NE)的启发,我们发现PEFT过程中参数空间变化的低秩特性与神经生物学机制相关。为此提出新型方法Synapse and Neuron(SAN),将前向特征调节向量中的缩放成分分解并传播至后向权重矩阵。该方法理论基础源于长期增强/抑制(LTP/D)现象,通过神经递质释放调控实现突触发育。大量实验表明其有效性:在使用ViT、SwinT和ConvNeXt的25个视觉任务(VTAB、FGVC、GIC)上,相比FFT最高提升8.7%,比LoRA高3.2%;在使用LLaMA系列模型的8个常识推理语言任务中,超越ChatGPT达8.5%,较LoRA高出4.7%;在7个混合视觉指令任务(LLaVA)中,超过FFT达2.4%,优于LoRA 1.9%。代码与W&B日志将公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Advances in Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) bridged the performance gap with Full Fine-Tuning (FFT) through sophisticated analysis of pre-trained parameter spaces. Starting from drawing insights from Neural Engrams (NE) in Biological Neural Networks (BNNs), we establish a connection between the low-rank property observed during PEFT's parameter space shifting and neurobiological mechanisms. This observation leads to our proposed method, Synapse and Neuron (SAN), which decomposes and propagates scaling components from anterior feature adjusting vectors towards posterior weight matrices. Our approach is theoretically grounded in Long-Term Potentiation/Depression (LTP/D) phenomena, which govern synapse development through neurotransmitter release modulation. Extensive experiments demonstrate its effectiveness: on \textbf{vision tasks} across VTAB, FGVC, and GIC (25 datasets) using ViT, SwinT and ConvNeXt, SAN outperforms FFT up to 8.7% and LoRA by 3.2%; on language tasks using Commonsense Reasoning (8 datasets) with LLaMA models (all generations), surpassing ChatGPT up to 8.5% and LoRA by 4.7%; on visual-language tasks using Mixed Visual Instruction (7 datasets) with LLaVA models, it exceeds FFT up to 2.4% and LoRA by 1.9%. Our code and W&B log will be released.
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