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Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced natural language processing with exceptional task generalization capabilities. Low-Rank Adaption (LoRA) offers a cost-effective fine-tuning solution, freezing the original model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jun Zhang , Jue Wang , Huan Li , Lidan Shou , Ke Chen , Yang You , Guiming Xie , Xuejian Gong , Kunlong Zhou

Memory-efficient finetuning of large language models (LLMs) has recently attracted huge attention with the increasing size of LLMs, primarily due to the constraints posed by GPU memory limitations and the effectiveness of these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Baohao Liao , Christian Herold , Shahram Khadivi , Christof Monz

Chinese-Vicuna is an open-source, resource-efficient language model designed to bridge the gap in Chinese instruction-following capabilities by fine-tuning Meta's LLaMA architecture using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Targeting low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Chenghao Fan , Zhenyi Lu , Jie Tian

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various downstream tasks. However, the high computational and memory requirements of LLMs are a major bottleneck. To address this, parameter-efficient fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Rambod Azimi , Rishav Rishav , Marek Teichmann , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

The increasing size of language models raises great research interests in parameter-efficient fine-tuning such as LoRA that freezes the pre-trained model, and injects small-scale trainable parameters for multiple downstream tasks (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Yunqi Zhu , Xuebing Yang , Yuanyuan Wu , Wensheng Zhang

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly impacted the field of natural language processing, but their growing complexity raises concerns about resource usage and transparency. Addressing these challenges, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Gyuwon Park , DongIl Shin , SolGil Oh , SangGi Ryu , Byung-Hak Kim

Language Models (LLMs) are often quantized to lower precision to reduce the memory cost and latency in inference. However, quantization often degrades model performance, thus fine-tuning is required for various down-stream tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jiajun Zhou , Yifan Yang , Kai Zhen , Ziyue Liu , Yequan Zhao , Ershad Banijamali , Athanasios Mouchtaris , Ngai Wong , Zheng Zhang

The growing number of parameters and computational demands of large language models (LLMs) present significant challenges for their efficient deployment. Recently, there is an increasing interest in quantizing weights to extremely low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Cheng Zhang , Jeffrey T. H. Wong , Can Xiao , George A. Constantinides , Yiren Zhao

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become the leading Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method for Large Language Models (LLMs), as it significantly reduces GPU memory usage while maintaining competitive fine-tuned model quality on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zhanda Zhu , Qidong Su , Yaoyao Ding , Kevin Song , Shang Wang , Gennady Pekhimenko

The growing scale of Large Language Models (LLMs) has necessitated the development of parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques. Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as a promising approach, reducing the number of trainable parameters by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jessica Liang , Anirudh Bharadwaj

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) using low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has become a highly efficient approach for downstream tasks, particularly in scenarios with limited computational resources. However, applying LoRA techniques to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yanxia Deng , Aozhong Zhang , Selcuk Gurses , Naigang Wang , Zi Yang , Penghang Yin

Quantization is an indispensable technique for serving Large Language Models (LLMs) and has recently found its way into LoRA fine-tuning. In this work we focus on the scenario where quantization and LoRA fine-tuning are applied together on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yixiao Li , Yifan Yu , Chen Liang , Pengcheng He , Nikos Karampatziakis , Weizhu Chen , Tuo Zhao

In this paper, we introduce \textbf{Share}d \textbf{Lo}w \textbf{R}ank \textbf{A}daptation (ShareLoRA), a Large Language Model (LLM) fine-tuning technique that balances parameter efficiency, adaptability, and robustness without compromising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yurun Song , Junchen Zhao , Ian G. Harris , Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi

Federated fine-tuning (FedFT) provides an effective paradigm for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) in privacy-sensitive scenarios. However, practical deployment remains challenging due to the limited resources on end devices.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Rukuo Li , Jianchun Liu , Hongli Xu , Liusheng Huang

Fine-tuning helps large language models (LLM) recover degraded information and enhance task performance. Although Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is widely used and effective for fine-tuning, we have observed that its scaling factor can limit or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jun Liu , Zhenglun Kong , Peiyan Dong , Changdi Yang , Xuan Shen , Pu Zhao , Hao Tang , Geng Yuan , Wei Niu , Wenbin Zhang , Xue Lin , Dong Huang , Yanzhi Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically trained in two phases: pre-training on large internet-scale datasets, and fine-tuning for downstream tasks. Given the higher computational demand of pre-training, it's intuitive to assume that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 James Liu , Guangxuan Xiao , Kai Li , Jason D. Lee , Song Han , Tri Dao , Tianle Cai

This paper presents a systematic methodology for building domain-specific Japanese small language models using QLoRA fine-tuning. We address three core questions: optimal training scale, base-model selection, and architecture-aware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Takato Yasuno

Due to the high memory and computational costs associated with large language models (LLMs), model compression techniques such as quantization, which reduces inference costs, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods like Low-Rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Hyesung Jeon , Yulhwa Kim , Jae-joon Kim

Human Activity Recognition is a foundational task in pervasive computing. While recent advances in self-supervised learning and transformer-based architectures have significantly improved HAR performance, adapting large pretrained models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Irina Seregina , Philippe Lalanda , German Vega

Finetuning large language models (LLMs) has been empirically effective on a variety of downstream tasks. Existing approaches to finetuning an LLM either focus on parameter-efficient finetuning, which only updates a small number of trainable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhengxin Zhang , Dan Zhao , Xupeng Miao , Gabriele Oliaro , Qing Li , Yong Jiang , Zhihao Jia