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title = "Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of {LL}a{MA} for the Clinical Domain",
author = "Gema, Aryo and
Minervini, Pasquale and
Daines, Luke and
Hope, Tom and
Alex, Beatrice",
editor = "Naumann, Tristan and
Ben Abacha, Asma and
Bethard, Steven and
Roberts, Kirk and
Bitterman, Danielle",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop",
month = jun,
year = "2024",
address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.clinicalnlp-1.9",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.clinicalnlp-1.9",
pages = "91--104",
abstract = "Adapting pretrained language models to novel domains, such as clinical applications, traditionally involves retraining their entire set of parameters. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques for fine-tuning language models significantly reduce computational requirements by selectively fine-tuning small subsets of parameters. In this study, we propose a two-step PEFT framework and evaluate it in the clinical domain. Our approach combines a specialised PEFT adapter layer designed for clinical domain adaptation with another adapter specialised for downstream tasks. We evaluate the framework on multiple clinical outcome prediction datasets, comparing it to clinically trained language models. Our framework achieves a better AUROC score averaged across all clinical downstream tasks compared to clinical language models. In particular, we observe large improvements of 4-5{\%} AUROC in large-scale multilabel classification tasks, such as diagnoses and procedures classification. To our knowledge, this study is the first to provide an extensive empirical analysis of the interplay between PEFT techniques and domain adaptation in an important real-world domain of clinical applications.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLaMA for the Clinical Domain
%A Gema, Aryo
%A Minervini, Pasquale
%A Daines, Luke
%A Hope, Tom
%A Alex, Beatrice
%Y Naumann, Tristan
%Y Ben Abacha, Asma
%Y Bethard, Steven
%Y Roberts, Kirk
%Y Bitterman, Danielle
%S Proceedings of the 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop
%D 2024
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Mexico City, Mexico
%F gema-etal-2024-parameter
%X Adapting pretrained language models to novel domains, such as clinical applications, traditionally involves retraining their entire set of parameters. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques for fine-tuning language models significantly reduce computational requirements by selectively fine-tuning small subsets of parameters. In this study, we propose a two-step PEFT framework and evaluate it in the clinical domain. Our approach combines a specialised PEFT adapter layer designed for clinical domain adaptation with another adapter specialised for downstream tasks. We evaluate the framework on multiple clinical outcome prediction datasets, comparing it to clinically trained language models. Our framework achieves a better AUROC score averaged across all clinical downstream tasks compared to clinical language models. In particular, we observe large improvements of 4-5% AUROC in large-scale multilabel classification tasks, such as diagnoses and procedures classification. To our knowledge, this study is the first to provide an extensive empirical analysis of the interplay between PEFT techniques and domain adaptation in an important real-world domain of clinical applications.
%R 10.18653/v1/2024.clinicalnlp-1.9
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.clinicalnlp-1.9
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.clinicalnlp-1.9
%P 91-104
Markdown (Informal)
[Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLaMA for the Clinical Domain](https://aclanthology.org/2024.clinicalnlp-1.9) (Gema et al., ClinicalNLP-WS 2024)
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