Position-Aware Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning Approach for Reducing Positional Bias in LLMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01430v1
• Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 19:04:17 GMT
• Title: Position-Aware Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning Approach for Reducing Positional Bias in LLMs
• Authors: Zheng Zhang, Fan Yang, Ziyan Jiang, Zheng Chen, Zhengyang Zhao, Chengyuan Ma, Liang Zhao, Yang Liu,
• Abstract summary: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enhanced their ability to process long input contexts. Recent studies show a positional bias in LLMs, demonstrating varying performance depending on the location of useful information. We develop a Position-Aware PAPEFT approach which is composed of a data augmentation technique and an efficient parameter adapter.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enhanced their ability to process long input contexts. This development is particularly crucial for tasks that involve retrieving knowledge from an external datastore, which can result in long inputs. However, recent studies show a positional bias in LLMs, demonstrating varying performance depending on the location of useful information within the input sequence. In this study, we conduct extensive experiments to investigate the root causes of positional bias. Our findings indicate that the primary contributor to LLM positional bias stems from the inherent positional preferences of different models. We demonstrate that merely employing prompt-based solutions is inadequate for overcoming the positional preferences. To address this positional bias issue of a pre-trained LLM, we developed a Position-Aware Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (PAPEFT) approach which is composed of a data augmentation technique and a parameter efficient adapter, enhancing a uniform attention distribution across the input context. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach effectively reduces positional bias, improving LLMs' effectiveness in handling long context sequences for various tasks that require externally retrieved knowledge.

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