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Adapter layer

What does “Adapter layer” mean?

Adapter layer: A small trainable module inserted into a model to adapt it to a task.

Adapter layer visual guide: A small trainable module inserted into a model to adapt it to a task.
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What is an example of “Adapter layer”?

A frozen text encoder gains a lightweight adapter for legal-document search.

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See also

Fine-tuningTermInstruction tuningTermKnowledge distillationTermCatastrophic forgettingTermParameter-efficient fine-tuningTerm

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