MTTL is a repository focusing on building LLMs that focus on model reusability, model recombination, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) techniques, particularly in the context of few-shot and zero-shot learning.

Check out our papers on ArXiv:

• Towards Modular LLMs by Building and Reusing a Library of LoRAs
• Multi-Head Adapter Routing for Cross-Task Generalization

For the code that accompanies the paper Towards Modular LLMs by Building and Reusing a Library of LoRAs, please refer to the Expert Library README. This contains details on training and evaluating experts with Arrow.

For the code that accompanies the paper Multi-Head Adapter Routing for Cross-Task Generalization, please refer to MHR-camera-ready.

MTTL is intended for research use as described in the paper Toward Modular LLMs by Building and Reusing a Library of LoRAs. MTTL performance in production environments has not been tested. Considerable testing and verification are needed before the concepts and code shared are used in production environments.

MTTL was evaluated on a selected set of standard NLP tasks, mostly on English data. Among these tasks are common-sense reasoning, question answering, and coding. The evaluation focused on zero-shot performance, supervised adaptation, and the effectiveness of different routing strategies and library constructions using models such as Phi-2 and Mistral. Complete details on evaluations can be found in the paper.

MTTL is built on top of existing language models and LoRAs. MTTL is likely to inherit any biases, risks, or limitations of the constituent parts. For example, LLMs may inadvertently propagate biases present in their training data or produce harmful or inaccurate content. MTTL has been tested for English tasks and has not yet evaluated performance multilingual scenarios. Performance for multilingual or non-English tasks is not yet known. Since MTTL was evaluated on a selected set of standard NLP tasks, performance on tasks outside of evaluated tasks covered in the paper is not yet known

Given that MTTL is used with LoRAs chosen or built by the user, it’s important for users to fully understand the behavior and safety of the LoRAs that they use. Users should verify both the accuracy and the safety for their specific configuration and scenario.

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