Poster
in
Workshop: ICML 2024 Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild
Rapid Switching and Multi-Adapter Fusion via Sparse High Rank Adapters
Kartikeya Bhardwaj · Nilesh Prasad Pandey · Sweta Priyadarshi · Viswanath Ganapathy · Rafael Esteves · Shreya Kadambi · Shubhankar Borse · Paul Whatmough · Risheek Garrepalli · Marinus van Baalen · Harris Teague · Markus Nagel
Keywords: [ Sparsity ] [ Generative AI ] [ Innovations in Finetuning ] [ Sparse High Rank Adapters ] [ Adaptation of Foundation Models ] [ Mobile Deployment ] [ LLMs ] [ Stable Diffusion ]
In this paper, we propose Sparse High Rank Adapters (SHiRA) that directly finetune 1-2% of the base model weights while leaving others unchanged, thus, resulting in a highly sparse adapter. This high sparsity incurs no inference overhead, enables rapid switching directly in the fused mode, and significantly reduces concept-loss during multi-adapter fusion. Our extensive experiments on LVMs and LLMs demonstrate that finetuning merely 1-2% parameters in the base model is sufficient for many adapter tasks and significantly outperforms Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA). We also show that SHiRA is orthogonal to advanced LoRA methods such as DoRA and can be easily combined with existing techniques.