%Aigaion2 BibTeX export from Idiap Publications %Saturday 21 December 2024 04:58:14 PM @ARTICLE{Chen_TASLP_2024, author = {Chen, Haolin and Garner, Philip N.}, keywords = {Bayesian transfer learning, catastrophic forgetting, Laplace approximation, parameter-efficient fine-tuning}, projects = {Idiap, NAST}, month = sep, title = {Bayesian Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting}, journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing}, year = {2024}, doi = {10.1109/TASLP.2024.3463395}, abstract = {We are motivated primarily by the adaptation of text-to-speech synthesis models; however we argue that more generic parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) is an appropriate framework to do such adaptation. Nevertheless, catastrophic forgetting remains an issue with PEFT, damaging the pre-trained model's inherent capabilities. We demonstrate that existing Bayesian learning techniques can be applied to PEFT to prevent catastrophic forgetting as long as the parameter shift of the fine-tuned layers can be calculated differentiably. In a principled series of experiments on language modeling and speech synthesis tasks, we utilize established Laplace approximations, including diagonal and Kronecker-factored approaches, to regularize PEFT with the low-rank adaptation (LoRA) and compare their performance in pre-training knowledge preservation. Our results demonstrate that catastrophic forgetting can be overcome by our methods without degrading the fine-tuning performance, and using the Kronecker-factored approximation produces a better preservation of the pre-training knowledge than the diagonal ones.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/papers/2024/Chen_TASLP_2024.pdf} }