[Demo] OpenDelta: A Plug-and-play Library for Parameter-efficient Adaptation of Pre-trained Models

Shengding Hu, Ning Ding, Weilin Zhao, Xingtai Lv, Zhen Zhang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun

Demo: Large Language Models (demo) Demo Paper

Demo Session 1: Large Language Models (demo) (Poster)
Conference Room: Frontenac Ballroom and Queen's Quay
Conference Time: July 10, 11:00-12:30 (EDT) (America/Toronto)
Global Time: July 10, Demo Session 1 (15:00-16:30 UTC)
TLDR: The scale of large pre-trained models (PTMs) poses significant challenges in adapting to downstream tasks due to the high optimization overhead and storage costs associated with full-parameter fine-tuning. To address this, many studies explore parameter-efficient tuning methods, also framed as ``del...
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Abstract: The scale of large pre-trained models (PTMs) poses significant challenges in adapting to downstream tasks due to the high optimization overhead and storage costs associated with full-parameter fine-tuning. To address this, many studies explore parameter-efficient tuning methods, also framed as ``delta tuning'' in Ding et al. (2022), which updates only a small subset of parameters, known as ``delta modules'', while keeping the backbone model's parameters fixed. However, the practicality and flexibility of delta tuning have been limited due to existing implementations that directly modify the code of the backbone PTMs and hard-code specific delta tuning methods for each PTM. In this paper, we present OpenDelta, an open-source library that overcomes these limitations by providing a plug-and-play implementation of various delta tuning methods. Our novel techniques eliminate the need to modify the backbone PTMs' code, making OpenDelta compatible with different, even novel PTMs. OpenDelta is designed to be simple, modular, and extensible, providing a comprehensive platform for researchers and practitioners to adapt large PTMs efficiently.