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Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as one of the most effective, computationally tractable fine-tuning approaches for training Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs). LoRA accomplishes this by freezing the…

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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning technique that aggregates model attributes from a large number of distributed devices. Several unique features such as energy saving and privacy preserving make FL a highly promising…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Haijian Sun , Xiang Ma , Rose Qingyang Hu

We introduce PHLoRA (Pronounced "flora"). (Post-hoc LoRA), a simple yet powerful method to extract low-rank adaptation adapters from full-rank fine-tuned models without requiring access to training data or gradients. By computing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Bhoomit Vasani , Jack FitzGerald , Anjie Fang , Sushmit Vaish

Fine-tuning (FT) large language models (LLMs) is crucial for adapting general-purpose models to specific tasks, enhancing accuracy and relevance with minimal resources. To further enhance generalization ability while reducing training…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sijing Xie , Dingzhu Wen , Changsheng You , Qimei Chen , Mehdi Bennis , Kaibin Huang

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a widely adopted paradigm for enabling edge learning with distributed data while ensuring data privacy. However, the traditional FL with deep neural networks trained via backpropagation can hardly meet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Jierui Zhang , Jianhao Huang , Kaibin Huang

With the breakthrough of Transformer-based pre-trained models, the demand for fine-tuning (FT) to adapt the base pre-trained models to downstream applications continues to grow, so it is essential for service providers to reduce the cost of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sheng Lin , Fangcheng Fu , Haoyang Li , Hao Ge , Xuanyu Wang , Jiawen Niu , Yaofeng Tu , Bin Cui

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, multimodal models, e.g., integrating vision and language into visual-language models (VLMs), have become pivotal for many applications, ranging from image captioning to multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Duy Phuong Nguyen , J. Pablo Munoz , Ali Jannesari

As large language models (LLMs) continue to scale in size, the computational overhead has become a major bottleneck for task-specific fine-tuning. While low-rank adaptation (LoRA) effectively curtails this cost by confining the weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yilang Zhang , Xiaodong Yang , Yiwei Cai , Georgios B. Giannakis

Federated representation learning (FRL) aims to learn personalized federated models with effective feature extraction from local data. FRL algorithms that share the majority of the model parameters face significant challenges with huge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Haolin Yu , Guojun Zhang , Pascal Poupart

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has achieved remarkable success in fine-tuning pre-trained vision transformers for various downstream tasks. Existing studies mainly focus on exploring more parameter-efficient strategies or more effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Zheng Liu , Jinchao Zhu , Gao Huang

This paper introduces a novel federated learning framework termed LoRa-FL designed for training low-rank one-shot image detection models deployed on edge devices. By incorporating low-rank adaptation techniques into one-shot detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Abdul Hannaan , Zubair Shah , Aiman Erbad , Amr Mohamed , Ali Safa

Federated Learning (FL) enables participant devices to collaboratively train deep learning models without sharing their data with the server or other devices, effectively addressing data privacy and computational concerns. However, FL faces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Asadullah Tariq , Tariq Qayyum , Mohamed Adel Serhani , Farag Sallabi , Ikbal Taleb , Ezedin S. Barka

Addressing the challenges of deploying large language models in wireless communication networks, this paper combines low-rank adaptation technology (LoRA) with the splitfed learning framework to propose the federated split learning for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Kai Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a widely adopted parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for large language models, with its effectiveness largely influenced by the allocation of ranks and scaling factors, as well as initialization.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Weicheng Lin , Yi Zhang , Jiawei Dang , Liang-Jie Zhang

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in dialect-heavy settings remains challenging due to strong regional variation and limited labeled data. We propose GLoRIA, a parameter-efficient adaptation framework that leverages metadata (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Pouya Mehralian , Melissa Farasyn , Anne Breitbarth , Anne-Sophie Ghyselen , Hugo Van hamme

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a widely adopted parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method. However, its linear adaptation process limits its expressive power. This means there is a gap between the expressive power of linear training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jiacheng Li , Jianchao Tan , Zhidong Yang , Feiye Huo , Yerui Sun , Yuchen Xie , Xunliang Cai

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) enables parameter-efficient fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs), and recent Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) extensions further enhance flexibility by dynamically combining multiple LoRA experts. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Lin Mu , Haiyang Wang , Li Ni , Lei Sang , Zhize Wu , Peiquan Jin , Yiwen Zhang

Asynchronous Federated Learning (AFL) confronts inherent challenges arising from the heterogeneity of devices (e.g., their computation capacities) and low-bandwidth environments, both potentially causing stale model updates (e.g., local…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiajun Song , Jiajun Luo , Rongwei Lu , Shuzhao Xie , Bin Chen , Zhi Wang

The performance of Federated Learning (FL) hinges on the effectiveness of utilizing knowledge from distributed datasets. Traditional FL methods adopt an aggregate-then-adapt framework, where clients update local models based on a global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yuan Wang , Huazhu Fu , Renuga Kanagavelu , Qingsong Wei , Yong Liu , Rick Siow Mong Goh

Federated Learning (FL) has become a popular paradigm for learning from distributed data. To effectively utilize data at different devices without moving them to the cloud, algorithms such as the Federated Averaging (FedAvg) have adopted a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Xinwei Zhang , Mingyi Hong , Sairaj Dhople , Wotao Yin , Yang Liu