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48 results for tuning methods

ADAPT improves robustness of Vision Transformers without full model fine-tuning.

problem Vulnerability of Vision Transformers to adversarial attacks.
method Parameter-efficient prompt tuning with ADAPT framework for adaptive adversarial training.
result ADAPT achieves robust accuracy of ~40% w.r.t. SOTA methods using only ~1% of the parameters.

Efficiently tunes hyperparameters with dynamic accuracy method.

problem Optimizing machine learning hyperparameters with inexact evaluations.
method Dynamic accuracy derivative-free optimization for hyperparameter tuning.
result Demonstrates robust and efficient hyperparameter tuning compared to fixed accuracy methods.

New method for hyperparameter tuning in sparse matrix factorization.

problem Hyperparameter tuning in sparse matrix factorization.
method Numerical method based on evaluating the zero point of normalization factor in sparse matrix prior.
result Our method outperforms existing algorithms in ground-truth sparse matrix reconstruction.

A cost-efficient method for hyperparameter tuning using multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization.

problem Expensive hyperparameter tuning with limited knowledge transfer methods.
method Amortized Auto-Tuning (AT2) framework for multi-task, multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization.
result AT2 leads to the best hyperparameter recommendation and is more cost-efficient.

InfoPrompt improves soft prompt tuning by maximizing mutual information, leading to better performance.

problem High sensitivity of prompt tuning to initial conditions and insufficient task-relevant information.
method Develops an information-theoretic framework to maximize mutual information between prompts and model parameters, using novel loss functions.
result InfoPrompt accelerates convergence and outperforms traditional methods.

Method constructs finance LLMs without instruction data using pretraining and model merging.

problem Developing domain-specific LLMs for finance is resource-intensive.
method Continual pretraining on financial data + model merging of instruction-tuned and domain-specific pretrained vectors.
result Successfully constructs instruction-tuned LLMs for finance without additional instruction data.

New method improves hyperparameter tuning efficiency across similar tasks.

problem Mismatch between evaluations in current and previous tasks.
method Nested drop-out and auto-relevance determination for learning basis functions of increasing complexity.
result Improves sample efficiency in hyperparameter tuning across different data regimes.

This paper introduces an efficient method for optimizing deep learning hyperparameters.

problem The high dependency of deep learning algorithms on hyper-parameters.
method Orthogonal Array Tuning Method (OATM) for deep learning hyper-parameter tuning.
result The proposed OATM method significantly saves tuning time compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Confidence bands for tuning curves improve hyperparameter comparison in NLP.

problem Ambiguity in comparing hyperparameter tuning methods.
method Constructs exact, simultaneous, and distribution-free confidence bands for tuning curves.
result Confidence bands provide a robust basis for comparing methods rigorously.

A new robust prefix-tuning framework improves model robustness against adversarial attacks.

problem Lack of robustness in prefix-tuning for adversarial attacks.
method Leveraging layerwise activations of pretrained models for additional prefix finetuning during the test phase.
result Framework substantially improves robustness over strong baselines while maintaining comparable accuracy on clean texts.

The paper introduces a Hessian-based method to improve generalization in fine-tuned deep neural networks.

problem Improving generalization in fine-tuned deep neural networks, especially in noisy conditions.
method PAC-Bayesian analysis to identify a Hessian-based distance measure, proving generalization bounds, and developing an algorithm with a generalization error guarantee.
result Hessian-based distance measure correlates well with observed generalization gaps and can match the scale of these gaps in practice.

New method quantifies uncertainty in fine-tuned LLMs using LoRA ensembles.

problem Uncertainty in fine-tuned LLMs and how to trust their predictions.
method Posterior approximations using low-rank adaptation ensembles.
result Unexpected retention of acquired knowledge during fine-tuning in overfitting regime.

This paper tackles hyperparameter tuning for large-scale kernel ridge regression.

problem Hyperparameter tuning is crucial but often left to users, hindering efficiency and usability.
method Proposes a complexity regularization criterion based on a data-dependent penalty for efficient optimization.
result Demonstrates the benefit of the proposed approach through extensive empirical evaluation.

Improved fine-tuning with regularization and robustness for noisy labels.

problem Fine-tuning pre-trained models on small datasets can lead to overfitting and memorization.
method PAC-Bayes generalization bound analysis, layer-wise regularization, self-label-correction, label-reweighting.
result Improves performance by 1.76% on average for image classification tasks and 0.75% for few-shot classification.

Tuning SVM and boosting models using optimization algorithms.

problem Tuning parameters for SVM and boosting models across various datasets.
method Used grid search to identify parameter ranges and optimization algorithms to select models.
result Optimization algorithms outperformed grid search in selecting well-performing models.

Adjoint Matching improves flow and diffusion models with reward fine-tuning.

problem Improving generative models with reward fine-tuning.
method Casting reward fine-tuning as stochastic optimal control (SOC) and enforcing a specific noise schedule.
result Adjoint Matching outperforms existing SOC algorithms.

New algorithm tunes SGMCMC hyperparameters for scalable Bayesian inference.

problem Tuning hyperparameters for SGMCMC is challenging due to lack of principled methods.
method Proposes a bandit-based algorithm using Stein discrepancies to tune hyperparameters.
result The method effectively tunes SGMCMC hyperparameters for various applications.

New method reduces fine-tuning cost for reused models.

problem Repeating fine-tuning costs with outdated foundation models.
method Portable Reward Tuning (PRT) trains a reward model to maximize the same loss function as fine-tuning.
result PRT achieves comparable accuracy to inference-time tuning with less inference cost.

Optimizes sparse fine-tuning for privacy in neural networks.

problem Performance gap between DP-SGD and non-private fine-tuning.
method Optimization-based approach using private gradient information for selecting trainable weights.
result Our selection method leads to better prediction accuracy compared to existing approaches.

A new method optimizes diffusion models for fine-tuning tasks efficiently.

problem Optimizing diffusion models for downstream tasks using nested bilevel structures.
method Formalizes the challenge as a generative bilevel optimization problem and introduces a first-order bilevel framework.
result Our method outperforms existing fine-tuning and hyperparameter search baselines.

Transfer learning, which allows a source task to affect the inductive bias of the target task, is widely used in computer vision. The typical way of conducting transfer learning with deep neural networks is to fine-tune a model pre-trained on the source task using data from the target task. In this paper, we propose an…

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DPZero fine-tunes large models privately without backpropagation.

problem Memory and privacy challenges in fine-tuning large language models.
method DPZero uses zeroth-order methods for private fine-tuning, avoiding backpropagation.
result DPZero achieves private fine-tuning of RoBERTa and OPT on various tasks.

PANDA improves linear discriminant analysis in high dimensions with minimal tuning.

problem Linear discriminant analysis in high-dimensional settings.
method PANDA: a tuning-insensitive method for linear discriminant analysis.
result PANDA achieves optimal convergence rates in estimation error and misclassification rate.

Paper proposes a reinforcement learning framework for efficient hyper-parameter tuning of stochastic optimization algorithms.

problem Efficient tuning of hyper-parameters for stochastic optimization algorithms.
method Modeling hyper-parameter tuning as a Markov decision process and using policy gradient algorithms.
result The proposed framework significantly reduces the time required for hyper-parameter tuning compared to Bayesian optimization.

This paper optimizes binary linear classifiers by tuning their weight vectors.

problem Optimizing the weight vector of binary linear classifiers for better performance.
method Parameterization of the discriminant through a scalar to control trade-offs between informative and noisy terms.
result Weight vector tuning compensates for non-optimal native hyperparameters, improving classification performance.

This article reviews tuning parameter selection for high-dimensional regression.

problem Choosing the optimal tuning parameter for high-dimensional regression.
method The article discusses various strategies for selecting tuning parameters.
result The optimal tuning parameter depends on the design matrix and error distribution.