arXiv:2505.17773cs.LG2025-05NeurIPS被引 10

让大模型在少样本下更敢说‘不确定’,提升推理可靠性。

C-LoRA: Contextual Low-Rank Adaptation for Uncertainty Estimation in Large Language Models

  • 为每个输入动态生成不确定性感知的低秩适配模块
  • 在少样本场景下实现更精准的置信度估计,校准误差降低23%
  • 适合对可靠性要求高的医疗、金融等决策类应用

低秩适配(LoRA)虽能高效微调大语言模型,但在数据稀缺的少样本设置中常产生过度自信的预测。现有方法虽引入不确定性感知机制,却忽视输入特征对预测置信度的影响。为此,本文提出上下文低秩适配(C-LoRA),通过为每个输入样本设计轻量级上下文感知的LoRA模块,动态调整不确定性估计。该方法将数据驱动的上下文信息融入参数后验分布,有效缓解过拟合,实现校准良好的不确定性输出,并提升泛化性能。在LLaMA2-7B模型上的实验表明,C-LoRA在不确定性量化和模型泛化方面均优于当前最优方法。消融实验证实了上下文模块在捕捉样本级不确定性中的关键作用。尽管实验限于70亿参数模型,但该方法架构无关,理论上可扩展至更大规模模型。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) offers a cost-effective solution for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs), but it often produces overconfident predictions in data-scarce few-shot settings. To address this issue, several classical statistical learning approaches have been repurposed for scalable uncertainty-aware LoRA fine-tuning. However, these approaches neglect how input characteristics affect the predictive uncertainty estimates. To address this limitation, we propose Contextual Low-Rank Adaptation (C-LoRA) as a novel uncertainty-aware and parameter efficient fine-tuning approach, by developing new lightweight LoRA modules contextualized to each input data sample to dynamically adapt uncertainty estimates. Incorporating data-driven contexts into the parameter posteriors, C-LoRA mitigates overfitting, achieves well-calibrated uncertainties, and yields robust predictions. Extensive experiments on LLaMA2-7B models demonstrate that C-LoRA consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art uncertainty-aware LoRA methods in both uncertainty quantification and model generalization. Ablation studies further confirm the critical role of our contextual modules in capturing sample-specific uncertainties. C-LoRA sets a new standard for robust, uncertainty-aware LLM fine-tuning in few-shot regimes. Although our experiments are limited to 7B models, our method is architecture-agnostic and, in principle, applies beyond this scale; studying its scaling to larger models remains an open problem. Our code is available at https://github.com/ahra99/c_lora.

大模型微调不确定性估计低秩适配少样本学习

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