Fisher-Guided Progressive Parameter Selection for Adaptive Fine-Tuning
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arXiv:2606.10196v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning often selects trainable parameters before adaptation using architectural heuristics, without accounting for their varying importance during training. We introduce \textbf{FisherAdapTune}, which progressively selects parameter groups based on temporal drift in their Fisher information. Under a local Gaussian approximation, we bound the divergence between the fine-tuned posterior and pretrained prior by accumulated Fisher-weighted update costs, motivating curvature-aware selection. FisherAdapTune measures J
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2606.10196v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning often selects trainable parameters before adaptation using architectural heuristics, without accounting for their varying importance during training.
- We introduce \textbf{FisherAdapTune}, which progressively selects parameter groups based on temporal drift in their Fisher information.
- Under a local Gaussian approximation, we bound the divergence between the fine-tuned posterior and pretrained prior by accumulated Fisher-weighted update costs, motivating curvature-aware selection.
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