待翻译：Forward Pass Domain Adaptation (Without Cross-Layer Backpropagation)
AI 服务暂时不可用，以下为来源摘要，待恢复后补全翻译：arXiv:2608.14563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forward-Pass-Only MLP training (FPO) adapts large language models without a backward pass through the model body, achieving 2.7--3.2x the throughput of standard fine-tuning at ~40% less peak training memory, while leaving off-domain benchmarks within seed-noise of baseline, a property that full-network fine-tuning does not reliably reproduce. FPO rests on a single empirical observation: at late layers of a transformer, the output-layer prediction error approximates the true gradient with cosine similarity 0.47--0.59 across six public models we survey. We introduce a two-minute diagnostic that quantifies this approximation per layer for any model, identifying where late-layer adaptation is viable. Informed by the diagnostic, FPO computes a single error signal at the output and applies it to each target layer. No signal is propagated between layers, and no autograd graph is constructed at any point. We evaluate FPO on three model families (OLMo-2-7B, Qwen3-8B, Falcon3-7B). Across all three, FPO produces in-domain perplexity improvement and leaves MMLU, ARC-Challenge, HellaSwag, and Winogrande within seed-noise of baseline. Localizing SFT to FPO's target layers to enter this regime is also feasible, but at 2.2x the wall-clock cost of FPO.
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--> [Submitted on 26 May 2026] Title:Forward Pass Domain Adaptation (Without Cross-Layer Backpropagation) View a PDF of the paper titled Forward Pass Domain Adaptation (Without Cross-Layer Backpropagation), by Rivaan Patil and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Forward-Pass-Only MLP training (FPO) adapts large language models without a backward pass through the model body, achieving 2.7--3.2x the throughput of standard fine-tuning at ~40% less peak training memory, while leaving off-domain benchmarks within seed-noise of baseline, a property that full-network fine-tuning does not reliably reproduce. FPO rests on a single empirical observation: at late layers of a transformer, the output-layer prediction error approximates the true gradient with cosine similarity 0.47--0.59 across six public models we survey. We introduce a two-minute diagnostic that quantifies this approximation per layer for any model, identifying where late-layer adaptation is viable. Informed by the diagnostic, FPO computes a single error signal at the output and applies it to each target layer. No signal is propagated between layers, and no autograd graph is constructed at any point. We evaluate FPO on three model families (OLMo-2-7B, Qwen3-8B, Falcon3-7B). Across all three, FPO produces in-domain perplexity improvement and leaves MMLU, ARC-Challenge, HellaSwag, and Winogrande within seed-noise of baseline. Localizing SFT to FPO's target layers to enter this regime is also feasible, but at 2.2x the wall-clock cost of FPO. Comments: 15 pages Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2608.14563 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2608.14563v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.14563 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Simon Dennis [view email] [v1] Tue, 26 May 2026 15:23:57 UTC (24 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Forward Pass Domain Adaptation (Without Cross-Layer Backpropagation), by Rivaan Patil and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.LG new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs cs.AI References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) IArxiv recommender toggle IArxiv Recommender (What is IArxiv?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)