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(Dynamic) Prompting might be all you need to repair Compressed LLMs

2 October 2023
Duc Hoang
Minsik Cho
Thomas Merth
Mohammad Rastegari
Zhangyang Wang
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Abstract

Large language models (LLMs), while transformative for NLP, come with significant computational demands, underlining the need for efficient, training-free compression. Notably, despite the marked improvement in training-free compression for the largest of LLMs, our tests using LLaMA-7B and OPT-6.7b highlight a significant performance drop in several realistic downstream tasks. Investigation into the trade-off between resource-intensive post-compression re-training highlights the prospect of prompt-driven recovery as a lightweight adaption tool. However, existing studies, confined mainly to perplexity evaluations and simple tasks, fail to offer unequivocal confidence in the scalability and generalizability of prompting. We tackle this uncertainty in two key ways. First, we uncover the vulnerability of naive prompts in LLM compression as an over-reliance on a singular prompt per input. In response, we propose inference-time dynamic prompting (IDP), a mechanism that autonomously chooses from a set of curated prompts based on the context of each individual input. Second, we delve into a scientific understanding of why "prompting might be all you need post-LLM compression." Our findings suggest that compression does not irretrievably erase LLM model knowledge but displace it, necessitating a new inference path. IDP effectively redirects this path, enabling the model to tap into its inherent yet displaced knowledge and thereby recover performance. Empirical tests affirm the value of IDP, demonstrating an average performance improvement of 1.24% across nine varied tasks spanning multiple knowledge domains.

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