5 papers
SharpZO: Hybrid Sharpness-Aware Vision Language Model Prompt Tuning via Forward-Only Passes
Yifan Yang, Zhen Zhang, Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan +3
Fine-tuning vision language models (VLMs) has achieved remarkable performance across various downstream tasks; yet, it requires access to model gradients through backpropagation (B…
FLAT-LLM: Fine-grained Low-rank Activation Space Transformation for Large Language Model Compression
Jiayi Tian, Ryan Solgi, Jinming Lu +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled remarkable progress in natural language processing, yet their high computational and memory demands pose challenges for deployment in reso…
Wanda++: Pruning Large Language Models via Regional Gradients
Yifan Yang, Kai Zhen, Bhavana Ganesh +11
Large Language Models (LLMs) pruning seeks to remove unimportant weights for inference speedup with minimal accuracy impact. However, existing methods often suffer from accuracy de…
QuZO: Quantized Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models
Jiajun Zhou, Yifan Yang, Kai Zhen +6
Language Models (LLMs) are often quantized to lower precision to reduce the memory cost and latency in inference. However, quantization often degrades model performance, thus fine-…
MaZO: Masked Zeroth-Order Optimization for Multi-Task Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
Zhen Zhang, Yifan Yang, Kai Zhen +4
Large language models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities across diverse tasks, but their fine-tuning demands significant memory, posing challenges for resource-constrained…