Low-Resource Fine-Tuning for Multi-Task Structured Information Extraction with a Billion-Parameter Instruction-Tuned Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08381v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:19:07 GMT
• Title: Low-Resource Fine-Tuning for Multi-Task Structured Information Extraction with a Billion-Parameter Instruction-Tuned Model
• Authors: Yu Cheng Chih, Yong Hao Hou,
• Abstract summary: Deploying large language models (LLMs) for structured data extraction in domains such as financial compliance reporting is often impractical for smaller teams due to the high cost of running large architectures and the difficulty of preparing large, high-quality datasets.<n>This work presents a billion- parameter LLaMA-based model fine-tuned with low-rank adaptation on only a few hundred samples per task for extraction, knowledge graph extraction, and named entity recognition.<n>These findings demonstrate that well-tuned small models can deliver stable and accurate structured outputs at a fraction of the computational cost, enabling cost-effective and reliable information extraction pipelines in resource-
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• Abstract: Deploying large language models (LLMs) for structured data extraction in domains such as financial compliance reporting, legal document analytics, and multilingual knowledge base construction is often impractical for smaller teams due to the high cost of running large architectures and the difficulty of preparing large, high-quality datasets. Most recent instruction-tuning studies focus on seven-billion-parameter or larger models, leaving limited evidence on whether much smaller models can work reliably under low-resource, multi-task conditions. This work presents ETLCH, a billion-parameter LLaMA-based model fine-tuned with low-rank adaptation on only a few hundred to one thousand samples per task for JSON extraction, knowledge graph extraction, and named entity recognition. Despite its small scale, ETLCH outperforms strong baselines across most evaluation metrics, with substantial gains observed even at the lowest data scale. These findings demonstrate that well-tuned small models can deliver stable and accurate structured outputs at a fraction of the computational cost, enabling cost-effective and reliable information extraction pipelines in resource-constrained environments.

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