A.1 Hyperparameters for QLORA We do a hyperparameter search for LoRA over the following variables: LoRA dropout { 0.0, 0.05, 0.1}, LoRA r { 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256}, LoRA layers {key+query, all attention layers, all FFN layers, all layers, attention + FFN output layers}. We keep LoRA α fixed and search the learning rate, since LoRA α is always proportional to the learning rate. We find that LoRA dropout 0.05 is useful for small models (7B, 13B), but not for larger models (33B, 65B). Each dot represents a combination of hyperparameters and for each LoRA r we run 3 random seed with each hyperparameter combination. The performance of specific LoRA r values appears to be independent of other hyperparameters.

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Key-value (KV) caching plays an essential role in accelerating decoding for transformer-based autoregressive large language models (LLMs).

It also stores approximate per-layer copies of activations, at significantmemorysavings,thatareusedinthebackwardpass.

Although significant efforts have been made into tackling statistical data heterogeneity,the diversity in the processing capabilities andnetworkbandwidth ofclients,termedassystemheterogeneity,hasremained largelyunexplored.

We do a hyperparameter search for LoRA over the following variables: LoRA dropout { 0.0, 0.05, LoRA α is always proportional to the learning rate. We find that LoRA dropout 0.05 is useful for small models (7B, 13B), but not for larger models (33B, We use the same preprocessing of the Super-Natural Instruction dataset as Wang et al. RA finetuning experiments outlined in Section 5. This limits the dataset to 9,209 examples. HH-RLHF This is a human preference dataset about helpfulness and harmlessness.