OpenDelta is a toolkit for parameter-efficient tuning methods (we dub it as *delta tuning*), by which users could flexibly assign (or add) a small amount parameters to update while keeping the most parameters frozen. By using OpenDelta, users could easily implement prefix-tuning, adapters, Lora, or any other types of delta tuning with preferred PTMs.
- The latest version of OpenDelta is tested on Python==3.8.13, PyTorch==1.12.1, transformers==4.22.2. Other versions are likely to be supported as well. If you encounter bugs when using your own package versions, please raise an issue, we will look into it as soon as possible.
- **2022.10.14** Release v0.3.0. We make the usage of default configurations of each delta tuning methods (i.e., the position they are attached) more friendly! If a custom model has our supported models as submodules inside, the default configuration is also available. Other key changes can be seen in [Update Log](https://opendelta.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notes/update.html#version-0-3-0)
- **2022.10.10** Merge a long-developed branch v0.2.4 into the master branch. Key updates are (1) the an example unifying the delta tuning paradigm and the prompt-tuning paradigm; (2) and support for [Delta Center](https://www.openbmb.org/toolKits/deltacenter), whose webpage is still under construction. Details can be seen in [Update Log](https://opendelta.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notes/update.html#version-0-2-4)
- **2022.03.24** We notice several bugs in Soft Prompt Tuning and Prefix Tuning, mainly due to their need to customize attention ids, token_type_ids, we are fixing it! Currently, please use the other methods since they are stabler and better in performance.
- **2022.03.20** Add a [Colab example](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1uAhgAdc8Qr42UKYDlgUv0f7W1-gAFwGo?usp=sharing) to illustrate efficient training and space-saving multitask-serving.
- **2022.02.16** Support [regular expression](https://opendelta.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notes/namebasedaddr.html#regexexpr) in named-based addressing.
The following codes and comments walk you through the key functionality of OpenDelta. It is also in [must_try.py](https://github.com/thunlp/OpenDelta/tree/main/examples/unittest/must_try.py) and [must_try.ipynb in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Nbe9zxt8LGQnKmtvEs07IN_PznjNCyk4?usp=sharing).
title={Delta tuning: A comprehensive study of parameter efficient methods for pre-trained language models},
author={Ding, Ning and Qin, Yujia and Yang, Guang and Wei, Fuchao and Yang, Zonghan and Su, Yusheng and Hu, Shengding and Chen, Yulin and Chan, Chi-Min and Chen, Weize and others},