FuseGPT: Learnable Layers Fusion of Generative Pre-trained Transformers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14507v1
• Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:49:28 GMT
• Title: FuseGPT: Learnable Layers Fusion of Generative Pre-trained Transformers
• Authors: Zehua Pei, Hui-Ling Zhen, Xianzhi Yu, Sinno Jialin Pan, Mingxuan Yuan, Bei Yu,
• Abstract summary: Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse domains. Recent works observe the redundancy across the transformer blocks and develop compression methods by structured pruning of the unimportant blocks. We propose FuseGPT, a novel methodology to recycle the pruned transformer blocks to further recover the model performance.
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• Abstract: Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse domains through the extensive scaling of model parameters. Recent works observe the redundancy across the transformer blocks and develop compression methods by structured pruning of the unimportant blocks. However, such straightforward elimination will always provide irreversible performance degradation. In this paper, we propose FuseGPT, a novel methodology to recycle the pruned transformer blocks to further recover the model performance. Firstly we introduce a new importance detection metric, Macro Influence (MI), to detect the long-term influence of each transformer block by calculating their loss of information after removal. Then we propose group-level layers fusion, which adopts the parameters in layers of the unimportant blocks and injects them into the corresponding layers inside the neighboring blocks. The fusion is not one-off but through iterative parameter updates by lightweight group-level fine-tuning. Specifically, these injected parameters are frozen but weighted with learnable rank decomposition matrices to reduce the overhead during fine-tuning. Our approach not only works well on large language models but also on large multimodal models. The experiments have shown that, by using modest amounts of data, FuseGPT can outperform previous works in both perplexity and zero-shot task performance.

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