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title = "{A}da{DHP}: Fine-Grained Fine-Tuning via Dual {H}adamard Product and Adaptive Parameter Selection",
author = "Liu, Han and
Li, Changya and
Zhang, Xiaotong and
Zhang, Feng and
Ma, Fenglong and
Wang, Wei and
Yu, Hong",
editor = "Che, Wanxiang and
Nabende, Joyce and
Shutova, Ekaterina and
Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2025",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.467/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.467",
pages = "9492--9504",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-251-0",
abstract = "With the continuously expanding parameters, efficiently adapting large language models to downstream tasks is crucial in resource-limited conditions. Many parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods have emerged to address this challenge. However, they lack flexibility, like LoRA requires manually selecting trainable parameters and rank size, (IA)$^{3}$ can only scale the activations along columns, yielding inferior results due to less precise fine-tuning. To address these issues, we propose a novel method named AdaDHP with fewer parameters and finer granularity, which can adaptively select important parameters for each task. Specifically, we introduce two trainable vectors for each parameter and fine-tune the parameters through Hadamard product along both rows and columns. This significantly reduces the number of trainable parameters, with our parameter count capped at the lower limit of LoRA. Moreover, we design an adaptive parameter selection strategy to select important parameters for downstream tasks dynamically. This allows our method to flexibly remove unimportant parameters for downstream tasks. Finally, we demonstrate the superiority of our method on the T5-base model across 17 NLU tasks and on complex mathematical tasks with the Llama series models."
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%A Li, Changya
%A Zhang, Xiaotong
%A Zhang, Feng
%A Ma, Fenglong
%A Wang, Wei
%A Yu, Hong
%Y Che, Wanxiang
%Y Nabende, Joyce
%Y Shutova, Ekaterina
%Y Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher
%S Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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Markdown (Informal)
[AdaDHP: Fine-Grained Fine-Tuning via Dual Hadamard Product and Adaptive Parameter Selection](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.467/) (Liu et al., ACL 2025)
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