区分参数重要性,精准隔离核心参数提升微调效果
Not All Parameters Are Created Equal: Smart Isolation Boosts Fine-Tuning Performance
- 按任务识别关键参数区域,分组后分别处理
- 核心参数直接移植,非核心参数用SLERP融合
- 冻结旧任务核心参数,避免灾难性遗忘
监督微调(SFT)是适配大语言模型(LLM)至下游任务的关键方法,但常因参数无差别更新导致「跷跷板现象」——某些任务性能提升时,其他任务性能下降。为此,我们提出一种新型核心参数隔离微调(CPI-FT)框架:首先在各任务上独立微调,通过量化参数更新幅度识别核心参数区域;根据区域重叠度将相似任务聚类,进行联合建模。进一步引入参数融合技术:每个任务的核心参数从其独立微调模型中直接移植至统一主干,不同任务的非核心参数则通过球面线性插值(SLERP)平滑整合,缓解破坏性干扰。随后采用轻量级流水线式多任务微调训练,冻结先前任务的核心参数以防止灾难性遗忘。在多个公开基准上的大量实验表明,该方法显著缓解任务干扰与遗忘问题,持续优于标准多任务及多阶段微调基线。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a pivotal approach to adapting large language models (LLMs) for downstream tasks; however, performance often suffers from the ``seesaw phenomenon'', where indiscriminate parameter updates yield progress on certain tasks at the expense of others. To address this challenge, we propose a novel \emph{Core Parameter Isolation Fine-Tuning} (CPI-FT) framework. Specifically, we first independently fine-tune the LLM on each task to identify its core parameter regions by quantifying parameter update magnitudes. Tasks with similar core regions are then grouped based on region overlap, forming clusters for joint modeling. We further introduce a parameter fusion technique: for each task, core parameters from its individually fine-tuned model are directly transplanted into a unified backbone, while non-core parameters from different tasks are smoothly integrated via Spherical Linear Interpolation (SLERP), mitigating destructive interference. A lightweight, pipelined SFT training phase using mixed-task data is subsequently employed, while freezing core regions from prior tasks to prevent catastrophic forgetting. Extensive experiments on multiple public benchmarks demonstrate that our approach significantly alleviates task interference and forgetting, consistently outperforming vanilla multi-task and multi-stage fine-tuning baselines.
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