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PEFT

🤗 PEFT (Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning) is a library for efficiently adapting large pretrained models to various downstream applications without fine-tuning all of a model's parameters because it is prohibitively costly. PEFT methods only fine-tune a small number of (extra) model parameters - significantly decreasing computational and storage costs - while yielding performance comparable to a fully fine-tuned model. This makes it more accessible to train and store large language models (LLMs) on consumer hardware.

PEFT is integrated with the Transformers, Diffusers, and Accelerate libraries to provide a faster and easier way to load, train, and use large models for inference.

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  >Quicktour
  Start here if you're new to 🤗 PEFT to get an overview of the library's main features, and how to train a model with a PEFT method.

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  >How-to guides
  Practical guides demonstrating how to apply various PEFT methods across different types of tasks like image classification, causal language modeling, automatic speech recognition, and more. Learn how to use 🤗 PEFT with the DeepSpeed and Fully Sharded Data Parallel scripts.

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  >Conceptual guides
  Get a better theoretical understanding of how LoRA and various soft prompting methods help reduce the number of trainable parameters to make training more efficient.

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  >Reference
  Technical descriptions of how 🤗 PEFT classes and methods work.