AcaQAS: An Academic Question Answering System Based on Finetuning Large Language Models
摘要
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their effectiveness across various natural language processing tasks, including question answering. However, adapting these models to domain-specific applications, such as academic question answering (Academic QA), presents challenges, particularly when computational resources are limited. This paper explores the use of parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques, specifically Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), to optimize open-source LLMs for academic QA tasks. We fine-tune LLaMA-7B and Bloomz models on a subset of The Pile dataset, focusing on academic and technical content. Our results show that LoRA-based fine-tuning improves model performance on academic QA tasks, even in resource-constrained settings, providing valuable insights into the applicability of these models in educational contexts.