{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/qless-a-quantized-approach-for-data-valuation","title":"QLESS: A Quantized Approach for Data Valuation and Selection in Large Language Model Fine-Tuning","arxiv_id":"2502.01703","date":"2025-02-03","proceeding":null,"authors":["Moses Ananta","Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda","Zayd Muhammad Kawakibi Zuhri","Ayu Purwarianti","Alham Fikri Aji"],"abstract":"Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) is often constrained by the computational costs of processing massive datasets. We propose \\textbf{QLESS} (Quantized Low-rank Gradient Similarity Search), which integrates gradient quantization with the LESS framework to enable memory-efficient data valuation and selection. QLESS employs a two-step compression process: first, it obtains low-dimensional gradient representations through LoRA-based random projection; then, it quantizes these gradients to low-bitwidth representations. Experiments on multiple LLM architectures (LLaMA, Mistral, Qwen) and benchmarks (MMLU, BBH, TyDiQA) show that QLESS achieves comparable data selection performance to LESS while reducing memory usage by up to 16x. Even 1-bit gradient quantization preserves data valuation quality. These findings underscore QLESS as a practical, scalable approach to identifying informative examples within strict memory constraints.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01703v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.01703v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"qless-a-quantized-approach-for-data-valuation","repo_url":"https://github.com/mosesananta/qless","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"data-valuation","task_name":"Data Valuation"},{"task_slug":"language-modeling","task_name":"Language Modeling"},{"task_slug":"language-modelling","task_name":"Language Modelling"},{"task_slug":"large-language-model","task_name":"Large Language Model"},{"task_slug":"mmlu","task_name":"MMLU"},{"task_slug":"quantization","task_name":"Quantization"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}