MALoRA: Mixture of Asymmetric Low-Rank Adaptation for Enhanced Multi-Task Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22782v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:53:52 GMT
• Title: MALoRA: Mixture of Asymmetric Low-Rank Adaptation for Enhanced Multi-Task Learning
• Authors: Xujia Wang, Haiyan Zhao, Shuo Wang, Hanqing Wang, Zhiyuan Liu,
• Abstract summary: In multi-task scenarios, challenges such as training imbalance and the seesaw effect frequently emerge. We propose Mixture of Asymmetric Low-Rank Adaptaion (MALoRA) as a flexible fine-tuning framework. MALoRA reduces the number of trainable parameters by 30% to 48%, increases training speed by 1.2x, and matches the computational efficiency of single-task LoRA models.
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• Abstract: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods like LoRA have significantly improved the adaptation of LLMs to downstream tasks in a resource-efficient manner. However, in multi-task scenarios, challenges such as training imbalance and the seesaw effect frequently emerge. Mixture-of-LoRA (MoLoRA), which combines LoRA with sparse Mixture-of-Experts, mitigates some of these issues by promoting task-specific learning across experts. Despite this, MoLoRA remains inefficient in terms of training speed, parameter utilization, and overall multi-task performance. In this paper, we propose Mixture of Asymmetric Low-Rank Adaptaion (MALoRA), a flexible fine-tuning framework that leverages asymmetric optimization across LoRA experts. MALoRA reduces the number of trainable parameters by 30% to 48%, increases training speed by 1.2x, and matches the computational efficiency of single-task LoRA models. Additionally, MALoRA addresses overfitting issues commonly seen in high-rank configurations, enhancing performance stability. Extensive experiments across diverse multi-task learning scenarios demonstrate that MALoRA consistently outperforms all baseline methods in both inter-domain and intra-domain tasks.

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