alpaca-lora VS lora

Here is a example: https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora/blob/main/finetune.py

In this blog post, I want to make it as simple as possible to fine-tune the LLaMA 2 - 7B model, using as little code as possible. We will be using the Alpaca Lora Training script, which automates the process of fine-tuning the model and for GPU we will be using Beam.

Implement the code in Llama LoRA repo in a script we can run locally

Hi all - relatively new to GitHub / programming in general, and I wanted to try to set up Alpaca Lora locally. Following the guide here: https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora

Follow up the popular work of u/tloen alpaca-lora, I wrapped the setup of alpaca_lora_4bit to add support for GPTQ training in form of installable pip packages. You can perform training and inference with multiple quantizations method to compare the results.

If instead you want to apply a LoRa to a pytorch model, a lot of people use this script to apply to LoRa to the 16 bit model and then quantize it with a GPTQ program afterwards https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora/blob/main/export_hf_checkpoint.py

There are a few papers on watermarking LLM output, but from what I have seen they all use complex methods of detection to allow the watermark to go unseen by the end user, only to be detected by algorithm. I believe that a more overt system of watermarking might also be beneficial. One simple method that I have tried is character substitution. For this model, I LORA finetuned openlm-research/open_llama_3b on the alpaca_data_cleaned_archive.json dataset from https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora/ modified by replacing all instances of the "." character in the outputs with a "ι" The results are pretty good, with the correct the correct substitutions being generated by the model in most cases. It doesn't always work, but this was only a LORA training and for two epochs of 400 steps each, and 100% substitution isn't really required.

I am kind of new to finetuning LLM's and am not able to understand what this option exactly refers to. I guess it has the same meaning as the "train_on_inputs" parameter of alpacalora though.

Read the paper and also: https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora

Diffusion unet has an "extended" version nowadays that applies to the resnet part as well as the cross-attention: https://github.com/cloneofsimo/lora

Absolutely. But that doesn't matter because you only have to train it at scale, once. There are papers released already that show it's possible to update weights in small sections. You won't have to wait for the next monolithic LLM to drop to get up to date information. It will start to learn in bits and pieces.

No, it's a deep learning thing

Low Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models.

Recently, I have seen the LoRA technique (Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models) as a popular method for fine-tuning LLMs and other models.

Enter LoRA, a method proposed for adapting pre-trained models to specific tasks[2]. By freezing pre-trained model weights and injecting trainable rank decomposition matrices into the transformer architecture, LoRA can reduce the number of trainable parameters and the GPU memory requirement, making the adaptation of LLMs for downstream tasks more feasible.

Open-source LLM projects have largely solved this using Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models (LoRA): https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685

Apparently an RTX 4090 running overnight is sufficient to produce a fine-tuned model that can spit out new Harry Potter stories, or whatever...

Alpaca was trained for $600 ($100 for the smaller model) and offers outputs competitive with ChatGTP. https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685