🚩 Our paper Twin-Merging was accepted by NeurIPS2024. Paper
This repository provides a PyTorch implementation and checkpoint for our Twin-Merging method, introduced in our paper Twin-Merging. Twin-Merging consists of two stages: modularizing knowledge into shared and exclusive components with compression to reduce redundancy, and dynamically merging shared and task-specific knowledge based on input.
This approach significantly narrows the performance gap between merged and fine-tuned models, improving adaptability to heterogeneous data. It shows an average improvement of 28.34% in absolute normalized score for discriminative tasks and even surpasses the fine-tuned upper bound on generative tasks.
This repository contains:
First, download and set up the repo:
git clone https://github.com/LZY-the-boys/Twin-Merging
cd Twin-Merging
We provide a requirements file to create a Conda environment. The Conda environment name merging
is used in generative/eval_scripts.sh
.
If you change the name, update it in generative/eval_scripts.sh
as well.
conda create -n merging python=3.9
conda activate merging
pip install -r requirements.txt
We offer examples for merging RoBERTa models tuned on the GLUE tasks.
For convenience, you can download a single expert for each dataset directly:
huggingface-cli download lu-vae/roberta-glue --local-dir roberta
You can find the detailed run command in discriminative/scripts.sh
.
To run other algorithms (e.g., Ties-Merging), simply use:
source scripts.sh
run_tie
For generative tasks, to run our twin-merging, you should use generative/eval.sh
.
The merged model is automatically evaluated using the official Hugging Face evaluate
.
The full pipeline is in discriminative/run.sh
. To get the results of our Twin-Merging approach, run:
cd discriminative
bash run.sh
Performance is calculated by the normalized score as shown in Equation (4) of our paper. Using {seed=0;gpu=A100-sxm-80g}
, the results are as follows (note: results may vary slightly with different devices or seeds):
Merging Algorithm | cola | mnli | mrpc | qnli | qqp | rte | sst2 | stsb |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ties-Merging | 9.46 | 59.34 | 74.71 | 65.93 | 41.29 | 47.29 | 72.13 | 9.21 |
Task-Arithmetic | 6.68 | 66.23 | 78.46 | 78.62 | 72.69 | 53.43 | 83.49 | 27.1 |
Twin-Merging | 101.06 | 94.35 | 97.51 | 98.78 | 98.06 | 94.56 | 99.64 | 82.67 |
The reference absolute accuracy of the finetuned experts:
Expert | cola | mnli | mrpc | qnli | qqp | rte | sst2 | stsb |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
cola | 56.52 | 34.17 | 74.8 | 47.15 | 33.42 | 47.29 | 51.38 | 5.41 |
sst2 | 9.29 | 37.56 | 51.97 | 47.95 | 44.8 | 51.62 | 94.72 | 4.37 |
mrpc | 11.1 | 35.46 | 87.99 | 60.84 | 62.01 | 47.29 | 50.46 | 57.61 |
stsb | 0 | 32.37 | 75.17 | 58.54 | 33.62 | 47.29 | 50.92 | 86.36 |
qqp | 0.28 | 43.06 | 77.21 | 62.64 | 89.71 | 46.57 | 50.92 | 52.32 |
mnli | 1.72 | 87.01 | 53.29 | 49.55 | 44.91 | 28.88 | 51.26 | -24.9 |
qnli | 18.04 | 38.76 | 74.96 | 91.71 | 34.33 | 47.29 | 55.16 | -24.07 |
rte | -2.12 | 34.27 | 74.8 | 56.04 | 50.77 | 66.43 | 51.38 | 49.3 |
We offer examples for merging Qwen-14B for four generative tasks: MMLU, TruthfulQA, BBQ, CNN-DailyMail.
Firstly, you should download the task-specific checkpoints:
huggingface-cli download lu-vae/qwen-cnn-merged --local-dir qwen/qwen-cnn
huggingface-cli download lu-vae/qwen-dolly --local-dir qwen/qwen-mmlu
huggingface-cli download lu-vae/qwen-truthfulqa-merged --local-dir qwen/qwen-truthfulqa
huggingface-cli download lu-vae/qwen-bbq-merged --local-dir qwen/qwen-bbq
Alternatively, you can fine-tune them using the LoRA method with the axolotl
framework. The configuration file is available here.
Their finetune dataset is uploaded in here
Then, you can run specific merging algorithm via
cd generative
source scripts.sh
run_task_arith
If using LoRA, update the --lora
flag with your configuration JSON, as shown in generative/qwen_lora.json
.
We evaluate the merged model using HELM
framework, which is one of the biggest LLM benchmark, similar to huggingface Openllmleaderboard.
However, its environment is a bit complex to install and have problems in showing the results , we recommend use our enhanced version for a smoother experience:
cd generative
git clone --single-branch --branch dev HELM-Extended-Local
conda create -n crfm-helm python=3.8
conda activate crfm-helm
pip install -r HELM-Extended-Local/requirements.txt
pip install summ-eval jieba bert-score
After installing the HELM, you can run our evaluation scripts to get the merged result:
cd generative
bash eval.sh
Results will be saved in generative/HELM-Extended-Local/outs
.
You should be able to reproduce similar performance as follows:
Model/adapter | BBQ - EM | CNN/DailyMail - ROUGE-2 | MMLU - EM | TruthfulQA - EM |
---|---|---|---|---|
Twin-Merging | 90.7268 | 19.9269 | 68.2704 | 53.3835 |
@article{Lu2024TwinMerging,
title={Twin-Merging: Dynamic Integration of Modular Expertise in Model Merging},
author={Zhenyi Lu and Chenghao Fan and Wei Wei and Xiaoye Qu and Dangyang Chen and Yu Cheng},
year={2024},
eprint={2406.15479},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15479},
}
We would like to acknowledge the Shanghai AI Laboratory provides facilities that were crucial to the completion of this work.