4 papers
Federated Co-tuning Framework for Large and Small Language Models
Tao Fan, Yan Kang, Guoqiang Ma +4
By adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to domain-specific tasks or enriching them with domain-specific knowledge, we can fully harness the capabilities of LLMs. Nonetheless, a ga…
FedProxy: Federated Fine-Tuning of LLMs via Proxy SLMs and Heterogeneity-Aware Fusion
Tao Fan, Guoqiang Ma, Yuanfeng Song +3
Federated fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs) is obstructed by a trilemma of challenges: protecting LLMs intellectual property (IP), ensuring client privacy, and mitigating…
PPC-GPT: Federated Task-Specific Compression of Large Language Models via Pruning and Chain-of-Thought Distillation
Tao Fan, Guoqiang Ma, Yuanfeng Song +2
Compressing Large Language Models (LLMs) into task-specific Small Language Models (SLMs) encounters two significant challenges: safeguarding domain-specific knowledge privacy and m…
FedMKT: Federated Mutual Knowledge Transfer for Large and Small Language Models
Tao Fan, Guoqiang Ma, Yan Kang +5
Recent research in federated large language models (LLMs) has primarily focused on enabling clients to fine-tune their locally deployed homogeneous LLMs collaboratively or on trans…