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Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a widely-used parameter-efficient finetuning method for large language models. LoRA saves memory by training only low rank perturbations to selected weight matrices. In this work, we compare the performance of…

Fine-tuning is a crucial paradigm for adapting pre-trained large language models to downstream tasks. Recently, methods like Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) have been shown to effectively fine-tune LLMs with an extreme reduction in trainable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Reece Shuttleworth , Jacob Andreas , Antonio Torralba , Pratyusha Sharma

Fine-tuning adapts a pre-trained model to downstream tasks using a small amount of labeled data. Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is an efficient fine-tuning method that reduces memory and computation costs while often achieving performance close…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ali Zindari , Rotem Mulayoff , Sebastian U. Stich

The substantial computational demands of modern large-scale deep learning present significant challenges for efficient training and deployment. Recent research has revealed a widespread phenomenon wherein deep networks inherently learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Laura Balzano , Tianjiao Ding , Benjamin D. Haeffele , Soo Min Kwon , Qing Qu , Peng Wang , Zhangyang Wang , Can Yaras

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is the dominant parameter-efficient fine-tuning method due to its favorable compute-performance trade-off, yet it suffers from catastrophic forgetting. We study forgetting through a tractable _mean-field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hugo Koubbi , Louis Hernandez , Matthieu Boussard

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is widely used for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models, but it is notably ineffective at removing backdoor behaviors from poisoned pretrained models when fine-tuning on clean dataset. Contrary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Hoang-Chau Luong , Lingwei Chen

Large language models (LLMs) suffer from forgetting of upstream knowledge when fine-tuned. Despite efforts on mitigating forgetting, few have investigated how forgotten upstream examples are dependent on newly learned tasks. Insights on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xisen Jin , Xiang Ren

Recent work using pretrained transformers has shown impressive performance when fine-tuned with data from the downstream problem of interest. However, they struggle to retain that performance when the data characteristics changes. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Martin Wistuba , Prabhu Teja Sivaprasad , Lukas Balles , Giovanni Zappella

Continual adaptation of deep generative models holds tremendous potential and critical importance, given their rapid and expanding usage in text and vision based applications. Incremental training, however, remains highly challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Victor Enescu , Hichem Sahbi

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods, such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), enable fast specialization of large pre-trained models to different downstream applications. However, this process often leads to catastrophic forgetting of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Joanna Sliwa , Frank Schneider , Philipp Hennig , Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato

Sequential fine-tuning of pretrained language encoders often overwrites previously acquired capabilities, but the forgetting behavior of parameter-efficient updates remains under-characterized. We present a controlled empirical study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ashish Pandey

We study and quantify the problem of forgetting when fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) on a downstream task. We find that parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) strategies, such as Low-Rank Adapters (LoRA), still suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Damjan Kalajdzievski

Training large models ranging from millions to billions of parameters is highly resource-intensive, requiring significant time, compute, and memory. It is observed that most of the learning (higher change in weights) takes place in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Krishu K Thapa , Reet Barik , Krishna Teja Chitty-Venkata , Murali Emani , Venkatram Vishwanath

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) lowers the computational and memory overhead of fine-tuning large models by updating a low-dimensional subspace of the pre-trained weight matrix. Albeit efficient, LoRA exhibits suboptimal convergence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yilang Zhang , Bingcong Li , Georgios B. Giannakis

While Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has proven beneficial for efficiently fine-tuning large models, LoRA fine-tuned text-to-image diffusion models lack diversity in the generated images, as the model tends to copy data from the observed…

Fine-tuning has proven to be highly effective in adapting pre-trained models to perform better on new desired tasks with minimal data samples. Among the most widely used approaches are reparameterization methods, which update a target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Aymane El Firdoussi , El Mahdi Chayti , Mohamed El Amine Seddik , Martin Jaggi

An important paradigm of natural language processing consists of large-scale pre-training on general domain data and adaptation to particular tasks or domains. As we pre-train larger models, full fine-tuning, which retrains all model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Edward J. Hu , Yelong Shen , Phillip Wallis , Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Yuanzhi Li , Shean Wang , Lu Wang , Weizhu Chen

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is the leading parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for Large Language Models (LLMs), but it still suffers from catastrophic forgetting. Recent work has shown that specialized LoRA initialization can alleviate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Pengwei Tang , Xiaolin Hu , Yong Liu , Lizhong Ding , Dongjie Zhang , Xing Wu , Debing Zhang

The rapid advancement of foundation modelslarge-scale neural networks trained on diverse, extensive datasetshas revolutionized artificial intelligence, enabling unprecedented advancements across domains such as natural language processing,…

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as a parameter-efficient approach for adapting large pre-trained models, yet its behavior under continual learning remains poorly understood. We present a geometric theory characterizing catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Brady Steele
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