Transferable Modeling Strategies for Low-Resource LLM Tasks: A Prompt and Alignment-Based Approach
It addresses the problem of adapting LLMs to low-resource languages or tasks for researchers and practitioners, but appears incremental as it builds on existing transfer and fine-tuning methods.
The paper tackles the limited transfer and adaptation of large language models in low-resource scenarios by proposing a unified framework with knowledge alignment and soft prompt tuning, achieving higher performance and stability on cross-lingual tasks like MLQA, XQuAD, and PAWS-X, especially under data-scarce conditions.
This paper addresses the limited transfer and adaptation capabilities of large language models in low-resource language scenarios. It proposes a unified framework that combines a knowledge transfer module with parameter-efficient fine-tuning strategies. The method introduces knowledge alignment loss and soft prompt tuning to guide the model in effectively absorbing the structural features of target languages or tasks under minimal annotation. This enhances both generalization performance and training stability. The framework includes lightweight adaptation modules to reduce computational costs. During training, it integrates freezing strategies and prompt injection to preserve the model's original knowledge while enabling quick adaptation to new tasks. The study also conducts stability analysis experiments and synthetic pseudo-data transfer experiments to systematically evaluate the method's applicability and robustness across different low-resource tasks. Experimental results show that compared with existing multilingual pre-trained models and mainstream transfer methods, the proposed approach achieves higher performance and stability on cross-lingual tasks such as MLQA, XQuAD, and PAWS-X. It demonstrates particularly strong advantages under extremely data-scarce conditions. The proposed method offers strong generality and scalability. It enhances task-specific adaptability while preserving the general capabilities of large language models. This makes it well-suited for complex semantic modeling and multilingual processing tasks.