Insights from Finetuning LLMs with Low-Rank Adaptation

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Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) stands as one of the most popular and effective methods for efficiently training custom Large Language Models (LLMs). As practitioners of open-source LLMs, we regard LoRA as a crucial technique in our toolkit.
In this talk, I will delve into some practical insights gained from running hundreds of experiments with LoRA, addressing questions such as: How much can I save with quantized LoRA? Are Adam optimizers memory-intensive? Should we train for multiple epochs? How do we choose the LoRA rank?
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[@dariusduesentrieb]

Very nice! I was just starting to think about a small project using LLM finetuning, so this video is very useful. (Though the hard part is currently getting the training data ...).

[@ugestacoolie5998]

you should go check out exisint datasets on hugging face, maybe something there can be of what you need

[@franky07724]

Thanks for the video and all the references. One suggestion: I feel that it is better to describe (write on the slides about) "model/data/hardware/batch-epoch" in some experiments, e.g., LoRA/QLoRA memory/runtime trade-off on 6:40. Maybe add the comment of these items in the description too. Great video!

[@SebastianRaschka]

I like that idea and will make sure to include more of the details in future videos!

[@franky07724]

@@SebastianRaschka Thanks!

[@Sanguen666]

always funny to see the best videos in utube get zero views. nice video.

[@SebastianRaschka]

Ha, thanks, I take this as a compliment :)

[@Scientist287]

He is famous outside of UA-cam, only a matter of time before he blows up here

[@MuratJumashev]

Thank you, @SebastianRaschka!
Can you please give some ideas on how to add new languages to pretrained LLMs, for example, Llama 2? I reviewed its tokenizer, and our alphabet (Kyrgyz, Cyrillic) is mostly supported except for 3 uppercase letters. While English speakers can enjoy the LLMs, people speaking low-resource languages cannot benefit as much due to limited language support. I think a tutorial on this would be beneficial globally.
I was thinking about adding Kyrgyz-English and English-Kyrgyz parallel corpora as well as monolingual texts. Do you think that would enable the "transfer learning" thing? I'm curious about your thoughts on whether this could be a viable solution to enhance the language model's capabilities for Kyrgyz.

[@MuratJumashev]

The following illustrates the tokenization output from the Llama 2 tokenizer for a short sentence in Kyrgyz:
```
Original sentence: ӨМҮРҮҢДҮН аягына чейин оку. өмүр!
Encoded sentence: [29871, 214, 171, 30017, 213, 177, 30027, 213, 177, 213, 165, 30032, 213, 177, 30029, 1097, 29970, 29969, 29982, 477, 2950, 29977, 8197, 614, 1382, 29889, 29871, 30778, 29959, 30750, 29927, 29991]
Token ID 29871 -->
Token ID 214 --> �
Token ID 171 --> �
Token ID 30017 --> М
Token ID 213 --> �
Token ID 177 --> �
Token ID 30027 --> Р
Token ID 213 --> �
Token ID 177 --> �
Token ID 213 --> �
Token ID 165 --> �
Token ID 30032 --> Д
Token ID 213 --> �
Token ID 177 --> �
Token ID 30029 --> Н
Token ID 1097 --> а
Token ID 29970 --> я
Token ID 29969 --> г
Token ID 29982 --> ы
Token ID 477 --> на
Token ID 2950 --> че
Token ID 29977 --> й
Token ID 8197 --> ин
Token ID 614 --> о
Token ID 1382 --> ку
Token ID 29889 --> .
Token ID 29871 -->
Token ID 30778 --> ө
Token ID 29959 --> м
Token ID 30750 --> ү
Token ID 29927 --> р
Token ID 29991 --> !
```

[@SebastianRaschka]

Good points. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with LLMs for these languages. I think the challenge really is the tokenizer. If you want to leverage a pretrained LLM, even if you want to train it further on new languages it's crucial to use the same tokenizer that was used to train the LLM in the first place. Otherwise, the embedding layers won't recognize any of the tokens or map them weirdly.
What you could do though is extend the tokenizer with those characters, I think.
E.g., if you use tiktoken for GPT-like models (I have an example here in section 2.5, github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/blob/main/ch02/01_main-chapter-code/ch02.ipynb), you can extend the tokenizer with new special tokens via "allowed_special" E.g.,
integers = tokenizer.encode(text, allowed_special={""})
These then get added after the main vocabulary.
Instead of "" you could try to input the special characters you mentioned. I am not sure how or if it works, but maybe worth a try.

[@programmingsiri5007]

Thanks for sharing! what do you think of the recent CALM paper by google which allows of composing llms in a different ways than LORA?

[@esamyakIndore]

Kindly share some project tut with this lecture.

[@ThanhPham-xz2yo]

Thanks

[@frankchieng]

it seems like diffuser just implemented DORA in their newest.version

[@SebastianRaschka]

A nice! Btw if you are interested, I've written an in-depth tutorial covering DoRA last month: "Improving LoRA: Implementing Weight-Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation (DoRA) from Scratch" (magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/lora-and-dora-from-scratch)

[@anshumansinha5874]

How many times do you say ‘yah’ in a day? Although great content :)