PYRA: Parallel Yielding Re-Activation for Training-Inference Efficient Task Adaptation
This addresses the problem of high computational costs in adapting large models for downstream tasks, offering a solution that balances efficiency for researchers and practitioners, though it appears incremental by combining elements of existing approaches.
The paper tackles the challenge of achieving both training and inference efficiency in task adaptation for large-scale transformers, proposing the PYRA method which outperforms competing methods under various compression rates.
Recently, the scale of transformers has grown rapidly, which introduces considerable challenges in terms of training overhead and inference efficiency in the scope of task adaptation. Existing works, namely Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) and model compression, have separately investigated the challenges. However, PEFT cannot guarantee the inference efficiency of the original backbone, especially for large-scale models. Model compression requires significant training costs for structure searching and re-training. Consequently, a simple combination of them cannot guarantee accomplishing both training efficiency and inference efficiency with minimal costs. In this paper, we propose a novel Parallel Yielding Re-Activation (PYRA) method for such a challenge of training-inference efficient task adaptation. PYRA first utilizes parallel yielding adaptive weights to comprehensively perceive the data distribution in downstream tasks. A re-activation strategy for token modulation is then applied for tokens to be merged, leading to calibrated token features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PYRA outperforms all competing methods under both low compression rate and high compression rate, demonstrating its effectiveness and superiority in maintaining both training efficiency and inference efficiency for large-scale foundation models. Our code is available at https://github.com/THU-MIG/PYRA.