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Low-rank adaptation

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A fine-tuning method that adds small trainable layers or low-rank updates while leaving the original model largely intact.

Low-rank adaptation, usually called LoRA, fine-tunes an existing model without rewriting its original parameters. It inserts small layers containing new learnable parameters, so training changes a limited part of the system. section 3.3

What changes during fine-tuning

Instead of updating every parameter in an existing model, LoRA adds small trainable layers and leaves the original model parameters intact. The fine-tuning process therefore calculates fewer parameter updates on each iteration. section 3.3

LoRA’s practical tradeoffs:

Speeds up fine-tuning because fewer parameter updates must be calculated. section 3.3
Helps control overfitting by restricting how many parameters can change. section 3.3
Still requires suitable fine-tuning configuration and validation or test sets to compare strategies and detect overfitting. section 3.3

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Related concepts

parameter-efficient fine-tuningkind of · Parameter-efficient fine-tuning adapts a pretrained model by training a limited subset of its parameters or added components rather than all its parameters.
QLoRAused by · QLoRA is a parameter-efficient fine-tuning method that quantizes a pretrained model’s weights while training low-rank adapters to reduce memory requirements.
low-rank approximationuses · A low-rank approximation represents a matrix by a lower-rank matrix or factorization, often retaining important structure while reducing storage or computation.

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