无需训练和数据,用量化+低秩近似压缩大模型微调增量。
D-QRELO: Training- and Data-Free Delta Compression for Large Language Models via Quantization and Residual Low-Rank Approximation

- 先用1比特量化捕获增量主结构,再用残差低秩恢复细节。
- 在密集和MoE架构上,压缩后性能优于现有方法。
- 揭示了任务难度、模型结构等对压缩效果的影响规律。
监督微调(SFT)加速了特定任务大语言模型的开发,但微调模型数量激增带来了巨大内存开销。增量压缩通过保留一个预训练大模型并存储多个压缩后的增量权重来缓解这一问题。然而,现有方法在大规模数据微调的模型上表现不佳。我们发现,更大的SFT数据规模会放大增量参数幅值、奇异值和熵,加剧压缩误差。为此,我们提出D-QRELO(基于量化与残差低秩近似的增量压缩),一种无需训练和数据的新型压缩方法。它先进行粗粒度1比特量化以捕捉增量的主要结构,再通过补偿性残差低秩近似从较小的残差误差中恢复精细细节。在涵盖密集与MoE架构、多个领域的多种大模型上进行实验,结果表明D-QRELO显著优于现有方法。此外,通过大量实证分析,我们建立了增量压缩的关键设计原则,揭示了任务难度、模型架构和层位置如何产生可预测的模式,为生产系统中的最优压缩策略提供指导。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) accelerates taskspecific large language models (LLMs) development, but the resulting proliferation of finetuned models incurs substantial memory overhead. Delta compression addresses this by retaining a single pre-trained LLM with multiple compressed delta weights. However, existing methods fail on models fine-tuned with largescale datasets. We find that larger SFT data scale amplifies delta parameter magnitude, singular values, and entropy, exacerbating compression errors. To tackle this, we propose DQRELO (Delta Compression via Quantization and Residual Low-Rank), a novel training- and data-free delta compression method. It combines coarse-grained one-bit quantization to capture the dominant structure of the delta, followed by compensated residual low-rank approximation to recover fine-grained details from the smaller residual error. Experiments on various LLMs spanning dense and MoE architectures across multiple domains under this challenging setting demonstrate that DQRELO outperforms existing methods. Moreover, we establish key design principles for delta compression through extensive empirical analysis, demonstrating how task difficulty, architecture, and layer positioning create predictable patterns that can guide optimal compression strategies in production systems.
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。