The authors analyzed hidden state representations from LLMs processing cross-lingual queries to delineate functional stage boundaries.
LLM layers follow a three-stage functional segmentation, fine-tuning only the critical bottleneck layer boosts performance
The authors propose LIFT, a method that identifies and selectively updates the most functionally important layers for a given task, leading to faster and more effective fine-tuning.
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Junning Shao · Siwei Wang · Zhixuan Fang
Tsinghua University · Microsoft Research Asia · Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute
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The authors hypothesize that LLM layers are organized into three contiguous stages—conceptualization, reasoning (with active and idle sub-stages), and textualization.
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Fine-tuning only the functionally critical layers of an LLM improves performance and efficiency.
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