Neural Architecture Search for Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning of Large
  Pre-trained Language Models
Neal Lawton Anoop Kumar Govind Thattai Aram Galstyan Greg Ver Steeg
Parameter-efficient tuning (PET) methods fit pre-trained language models
(PLMs) to downstream tasks by either computing a small compressed update for a
subset of model parameters, or appending and fine-tuning a small number of new
model parameters to the pre-trained network. Hand-designed PET architectures
from the literature perform well in practice, but have the potential to be
improved via automated neural architecture search (NAS). We propose an
efficient NAS method for learning PET architectures via structured and
unstructured pruning. We present experiments on GLUE demonstrating the
effectiveness of our algorithm and discuss how PET architectural design choices
affect performance in practice.