通过分析权重谱结构,实现高效精准的模型微调
Weight Spectra Induced Efficient Model Adaptation
- 基于奇异值分解发现微调主要增强前几个奇异值
- 新方法仅调整关键方向的缩放,保持整体结构稳定
- 在多任务上优于主流方法,适合资源受限场景
大规模基础模型在众多下游任务中表现出色,但全量微调成本高昂。为此,参数高效微调(PEFT)如LoRA引入低秩更新以降低开销。然而,这类方法如何改变模型参数仍不清晰。本文通过奇异值分解系统研究全量微调中权重矩阵的结构变化:发现微调主要放大前几个奇异值,而其余部分基本不变,表明任务知识注入到低维子空间;同时主导奇异向量被重定向至任务相关方向,非主导子空间保持稳定。基于此,我们提出一种新方法,通过可学习地调节前导奇异方向的缩放,精确控制最关键成分,而不破坏全局结构。该方法在多个任务上持续优于强基线,验证了结构感知微调的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large-scale foundation models have demonstrated remarkable versatility across a wide range of downstream tasks. However, fully fine-tuning these models incurs prohibitive computational costs, motivating the development of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods such as LoRA, which introduces low-rank updates to pre-trained weights. Despite their empirical success, the underlying mechanisms by which PEFT modifies model parameters remain underexplored. In this work, we present a systematic investigation into the structural changes of weight matrices during fully fine-tuning. Through singular value decomposition (SVD), we reveal that fine-tuning predominantly amplifies the top singular values while leaving the remainder largely intact, suggesting that task-specific knowledge is injected into a low-dimensional subspace. Furthermore, we find that the dominant singular vectors are reoriented in task-specific directions, whereas the non-dominant subspace remains stable. Building on these insights, we propose a novel method that leverages learnable rescaling of top singular directions, enabling precise modulation of the most influential components without disrupting the global structure. Our approach achieves consistent improvements over strong baselines across multiple tasks, highlighting the efficacy of structurally informed fine-tuning.
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