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PRiSM: Partial Ranking via Inter-layer Semantic Measurement for Efficient Fine-tuning of Language Models

2026 · International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation · pp. 10313-10323 · 0 citations · 38 references
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PRiSM is proposed, a training-free approach for layer-wise partial fine-tuning that leverages the cosine similarity between pre-trained aggregate token representations across layers to identify inter-layer relationships and achieves competitive performance compared to full fine-tuning.

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