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LoRA has become one of the most widely used parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods due to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, numerous studies have shown that LoRA often introduces substantial parameter redundancy, which not only…

The objective of this work was to utilize BigBench [1] as a Big Data benchmark and evaluate and compare two processing engines: MapReduce [2] and Spark [3]. MapReduce is the established engine for processing data on Hadoop. Spark is a…

MapReduce has been widely applied in various fields of data and compute intensive applications and also it is important programming model for cloud computing. Hadoop is an open-source implementation of MapReduce which operates on terabytes…

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